Friday Flora: A better view
How is your view today? When I look out my window I see the snow falling, gray skies, and the dismal frigid environment that we seem unable to escape here in Minnesota. When I look away from my window and…
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Friday Flora: Tick Trefoil
You’ve got a little something on your skirt… – Desmodium grandiflorum (Desmodium cuspidatum), “Tick Trefoil,” large, with Miss I. Dorman, March 22, 1924 (From Ned L. Huff’s hand-colored lantern slides in the Department of Botany collection)…
Friday Flora: Valentine’s Day Delivery
I saw on the news this morning that winter storms in the southern United States could potentially cause delays in floral deliveries to the Twin Cities today. Apparently, in the floral industry, Atlanta is a major distribution city for flowers…
Friday Flora: Springtime atop Gwinn’s Bluff
As a reward for surviving temperatures that reached 20 below zero just a few days ago, for the Friday Flora we will travel to the spring of 1937 to sit alongside a University of Minnesota botany class atop Gwinn’s Bluff…
Friday Flora: Congratulations…
… you made it through the week! We brought you some flowers. – Small white Lady’s Slipper in hand on the Fort Snelling prairie, May 28, 1926…
Friday Flora: I went to a garden party…
“I went to a garden party, reminisced with my old friends A chance to share old memories and play our songs again…” – Rick Nelson The lyrics to Ricky Nelson’s 1972 hit song, “Garden Party” came to mind as…
Friday Flora: Across the Pond
In honor of the British holiday Guy Fawkes Day earlier this week (Remember, remember the 5th of November!), I thought it would be appropriate to share something from across the pond. You may ask, with the Exploring grant focused on…
Friday Flora: Picnic Amongst the Pines
When he wasn’t in the field making bird observations in pursuit of his ornithological hobby, Thomas Sadler Roberts shared his love of nature with his family members. Here Roberts is pictured having lunch with Mrs. Roberts and their three children…
Friday Flora: Winter Condition
With the recent cold snap and the ever changing colors of the leaves upon campus trees, we can’t help but to realize that soon it will be winter once again in Minnesota. To remind us what that will look like,…
Friday Flora: Leatherwood bush
Yesterday, we shared images from the Training Course for Boy Scout Leaders in Forestry, Woodcraft, and Scouting that was held at Itasca State Park in August of 1920. Much of the instruction at the two-week course centered upon the identification,…