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…
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…
Can you guess what is wrong with the image below? – Ambrosia trifida (Giant Ragweed) thirteen feet tall, May 1942….
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…
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)…
This week marked the start of the spring semester at the University of Minnesota, yet as the temperature remained below zero in the Twin Cities for most of the week, it didn’t feel very spring-like on campus. Thanks to former…
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…
… 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…
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,…
– White Cypripedium section – White Cypripedium, Cypripedium candidum (Small White Lady’s-slipper) – Yellow Cypripedium…