Calling gumweed a weed is like getting angry at a substitute teacher or backup quarterback because your favorite teacher or player is sick or injured.
Tag: Plants
Restoring the Blowout Penstemon
It is extremely difficult to restore the rare blowout penstemon, but encouraging efforts are underway.
Wood-Sorrels
On a hot summer day, I often pop a wood-sorrel’s clover-like leaf into my mouth to experience a burst of citrusy tartness. The practice is a long tradition, as for millennia Native Americans have enjoyed them.
Nebraska’s Fascinating Ferns
Of Nebraska’s roughly 1,500 known native plant species, only 31 are ferns.
The Not So Plain Plains Onion
Of our state’s six species of native onion, the Plains onion, though small in stature, has the largest, and in my opinion, most elegant flowers.
Reflecting on the Crown-tipped Coral
Two words best describe the bizarrely-shaped coral mushrooms — “really cool.”