Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 4, 2018
One of the deciduous genera of conifers, the ten or eleven species of Larix are native to the temperate-cold zones of the northern hemisphere. Larix decidua, in its autumn foliage in these photographs, is native to higher elevations of southern Europe in a range spanning from France to Ukraine.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 25, 2018
Native to Peru, Tropaeolum peregrinum is widely cultivated as an ornamental. In tropical areas, it perennates, persisting from year to year. In harsher climates, including Alaska where this photograph was taken, it is grown as a horticultural annual.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 20, 2018
The diminutive bog cranberry or small cranberry is wide-ranging across northern Europe, Asia, and North America. As one of its common names implies, it is a species of bogs–and also fens, muskeg, and arctic-alpine tundra.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 14, 2018
Ramadan concludes at sunset this evening. For many Muslims, the associated fasting extends to the discouragement (if not prohibition) of using toothpaste and mouthwash. Instead, a miswak, or tooth-cleaning stick, is the prescribed dental tool. Most often, these teeth-cleaning roots or twigs originate from Salvadora persica, sometimes commonly known as the toothbrush tree.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 23, 2018
Wild thyme or creeping thyme is a subshrub or short-statured shrub native to Europe and perhaps western Asian and northern Africa; the range information on the IUCN Red List for Thymus serpyllum is contradictory. This species is not typically a culinary thyme (which is most often Thymus vulgaris).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 1, 2018
Spring is now arriving throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For those of us in this part of the world, it’s nice to know that we can begin to enjoy blooming flowers not only on our computer screens, but also in person. For me, it is also satisfying to put a name to a plant […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 27, 2018
Chilean wood sorrel or silver shamrock concludes this week’s series on flowering plants of South America. This is a plant that can grow in most temperate regions of the world, either outdoors or as a houseplant.
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