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…
In addition to some flora, since it is Friday, let’s add some fun… The actual caption for this photograph from the Department of Botany collection reads, “Talus vegetation, lichens and small shrubs, Lake Superior region” Something tells me that…
We reached a milestone on the Exploring project this week – completion of metadata entry (to include scientific names, families, additional captions, and geographical locations) for the 2,273 mounted botanical photographs from the Department of Botany records. Now ends the…
When the Exploring project began back in mid-April, the inaugural collection of materials scanned were 2,200 botanical photographs from the collection of the Department of Botany (precursor to the Department of Plant Sciences). The final scan of this collection was…
This week’s Friday Flora is not from the collection of the Department of Botany as regularly featured, but comes from the documentary nature photography of Thomas Sadler Roberts. Though birds are Roberts’s most common subject, several examples of flora and…
Welcome to Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History – the blog. On the occasion of the launch of this project, and on our first Friday of blogging, it is only fitting that we share the first image digitized – our first…