I thought the name of this plant was implicit, but apparently not… Touch-Me-Nots, circa 1900 (Image taken by Thomas Sadler Roberts, part of the glass plate negative collection from the Bell Museum of Natural History records.)…
Last Friday, I traveled out to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, MN. The Arboretum, part of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota, is home to over one-thousand acres of gardens and…
From the collection of the Department of Botany, Box 17, photo 287: – Lycopodium clavatum, Running clubmoss, Tofte ’00 (1900)…
From the collection of the Department of Botany, Box 17, photo 148: Burl on oak, Glenwood ’00 Burl: a hard woody often flattened hemispherical outgrowth on a tree (Merriam-Webster)…
From the collection of the Department of Botany, Box 17, photo 2: Viola blanda, L. Calhoun ’00 (Lake Calhoun 1900) [Sweet White Violet]…