We’re not sharing any images on the UThink Exploring blog for the Friday Flora this week, and it’s for a good reason. We are excited to report that the 2, 273 mounted print photographs of botanical specimens and regional landscapes…
In 1907, the state legislature passed a bill that designated Itasca State Park as a State Forest and assigned Park management to the state Forestry Board. The legislature also granted the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota permission…
We’ve all heard of “sittin’ on the dock of the bay.” We give you… “Sittin’ on a rock far away.” – Rocks at Granite Falls, Minnesota, undated. (From the Ned L. Huff lantern slide collection in the Department of Botany…
Last month, University Libraries’ Communications Director Mark Engebretson visited University Archives to interview Exploring project staff and capture the process of digitization. He produced a video about our project that is now featured on the Libraries’ continuum website. After months…
It is not likely you will see this scene replicated if you visited Como Park Zoo and Conservatory today after we just received 8 to 10 inches of snow in the Twin Cities. You could still go inside the Conservatory…
It is snowing again in Minneapolis today. In order to take our minds off of this perpetual never-ending winter, let’s think about snow in a different context – plant names! – Orchis spectabilis (Galearis spectabilis), Snowy Orchis, Orchidaceae – Euphorbia…
Occasionally after I arrive home from work, I turn on WCCO to watch Wheel of Fortune. It’s nice to unwind after a long day and likely delayed commute via public transit to the sounds of the rat-i-tat-tat of a spinning…
On this day, the first day of spring 2014, let’s remind ourselves of what will soon be sprouting up… – Erythronium albidum, White Dog-Tooth Violet, Liliaceae, 1943 – Calypso bulbosa, Fairy Slipper, Orchidaceae, Itasca State Park, 1937 – Cypripedium parviflorum…
Can you guess what is wrong with the image below? – Ambrosia trifida (Giant Ragweed) thirteen feet tall, May 1942….
When we began scanning the Ned L. Huff Lantern Slide Collection a few months ago, we had very little knowledge of just who Ned Huff was other than that he was a botany professor at the University. Ned was…