Plants

Flora alpina: Common ferns

Polypods all the way down

Nov 25 •

Flora alpina: Weird ferns

Welcome back to the Flora Alpina, an evolutionary tour of the plants in the Alps.

Oct 28 •

Flora alpina: The lycophytes

Clubmosses, scale trees, ghost forests, coal

Oct 7 •

Flora alpina: On seeds, spores, and double identity

The best-kept botanical evolutionary secret

Jun 23 •

Flora alpina: Family matters

An introduction to Floras, plant families, and a new series

May 22 •

There may be branching: The Tree of Life

A metaphor, a time-journey, a memory palace

Mar 4 •

All the plants in the Alps

A brief introduction

Feb 5 •

The garden and the glacier

Jardin du Lautaret and the glaciers of La Meije

Sep 18, 2023 •

Some plant science poems for Earth Day

I went into the field of plant ecology research because I love plants and the places they live in.

Apr 22, 2023 •

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