Plants

Col du Lautaret

Take a botanical hike in the Alps, in photos

Jul 8 •

Flora alpina: Pondweed and arums

Our first monocots: Order Alismatales

Jun 23 •

National Parks in France: Vanoise

Featuring an embarassment of alpine flower riches

May 25 •

Flora alpina: Water lilies and magnoliids

aka the basal angiosperms

May 11 •

Plants of Provence

Apr 27 •

Flora alpina: The invention of flowers

Intro to angiosperms

Apr 21 •

Flora alpina: Conifers II

Cupressaceae, Taxaceae, Ephedraceae + Bonus Gymnosperms

Feb 20

Flora alpina: Conifers I

The invention of seeds | Pinaceae

Feb 10 •

Flora alpina: Common ferns

Polypods all the way down

Nov 25, 2024 •

Flora alpina: Weird ferns

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

Oct 28, 2024 •

Flora alpina: The lycophytes

Clubmosses, scale trees, ghost forests, coal

Oct 7, 2024 •

Flora alpina: On seeds, spores, and double identity

The best-kept botanical evolutionary secret

Jun 23, 2024 •

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