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society will tell you the creeping charlie is bad and wrong theyll tell you the creeping charlie invades gardens and is a pest but i know the truth. which is that the little purple flowers are cute

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not to be the guy who stops and admires the flowers but when I go outside. they do draw me in fr fr

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hey, is anybody here an herbarium curator/someone who works at an herbarium? and how did you get there? did you go for a masters’ degree?

#rotating my future in my mind unfortunately #herbarium curator seems to be at the intersection of many of my persistent interests (botany/history/science communication/archival) #so I am. Considering

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do you have any blog recs similar to yours about plants and such that are *active*? or can just post this for folks can reblog with their active plant/ecology/similar topic blogs? <3 thank you!

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#asks

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ah to be a moss in a beautifully manicured Denver botanical gardens exhibit…..

#i was there today…too early for the lily pads but they had some classics #mosses

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incredibly obvious statement but it MUST be said. ah to be a lichen or shrub on a mountaintop

#lichens #I’m just sayin. on a mountain rn and just sayin #not many mountains in the American Midwest so I gotta get my lichen time in when I can #love seeing guys I know from Iowa and also guys I haven’t seen since my college’s herbarium!!

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BIG SKUNKZ

#dude. CLASSIC eastern skunk cabbage moments #eastern skunk cabbage

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in an odd place as a zillenial in ag where I’m generally anti-consumption, would like to be able to own and fix my own stuff etc but I also work with old farmers so I’ll be like ‘hey can we throw this thing away?’ and they’ll be like ‘NOOOOOOOOOO those are the truck balls from the first model T we need those!!!’ and it’ll look like this

#not plonts #ag

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miscommunication at my workplace a few months ago led to an unknown persons disposing of untreated soybeans in the wrong spot, which then became a soybean disaster zone when a skid loader picked up said soybean pile on accident and spread soybeans everywhere in the sloped parking lot while backing up over bumps like a comedy skit, which then caused cars to drive over them regularly until they got crushed into tiny soybean pieces that often ended up on the curb by a grassy area with a couple trees. as you can imagine this has been huge for the local birds, the dark eyed junkos specifically. the moral is that sometimes you just hit it big as a little guy

#not plonts #seedposting

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Superbloom 2017; diamond valley lake, california

instagram - twitter - website

#dude....... imagine #not a huge fan of the angiosperms but they DID pop off a little with the superblooms

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seeing the plants getting confused outside my home starting to sprout when it’s still winter like omggg that’s so funny and true I also am a creature that relies on ancient patterns of change to ground myself in the time and place where I live left adrift and disconnected when it’s 60F in February lmaooooooo #murder #destroy #bloodandbones #explosions

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been too immersed in the research sauce of non-plant-related topics to post much but I HAVE been getting messages asking if I saw the newest reports of lichens in space and I am SO pleased to tell you all that various lichens have been going into the vacuum of space and surviving since like 2006. so not only did they go up there once recently and survive, but you can read about them going to space multiple times through the 2000s and 2010s for as long as a year at a time and consistently coming back down and being like ‘ohhh lmaoo that winter was chilly!! haha’. haven’t read the newest lichen lore drop in question yet but they DO do that like they’re just built different theres simply no other way to say it

#lichens

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Stages | Developing Nepenthes Pitcher plant by Steve Mackay

#CLASSIC. #i love that the lids look like they would pop off all at once with a satisfying sound #carnivorous plants #nepenthes

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Checking whether you're following @plant-taxonomy-showdown . They're hosting the first round right now, pitting all the plant phyla against each other in 1v1 brackets, and I know the liver warts, hornworts, and mosses would benefit from you pulling for them when the going gets tough.

dude..... this is so real

#round one charophyte sweep theyre SO wild #asks #plont asks

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if theres anything ive learned about science communication both online and offline its that people love unusually large or small versions of a creature. nothing really reaches across the barriers of age, education, or language like that does. if it has another interesting factor that seems mildly upsetting or surprising but not offensive to broad human cultural norms, that is a plus but its not required because even then for a single moment everyone is like damn, yeah, thats pretty big or small, and then even if they remember nothing else they might remember that the creatures are coming in Sizes. you know

#this post sounds like its about the titan arum but its actually about the double coconut at my workplace that looks like a butt #seedposting #scicomm #science communication

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Hi, I need to write a seminar for my Applied Botany class and have no inspiration. What's the weirdest plant you can think of off the top of your head (which is hopefully an Angiosperm)? Sources welcome if you have the time but I can hunt them down on my own.

ok i was gonna instinctively say a gnetophyte but instead i'll go the closest i can get to a gnetophyte without leaving the angiosperms: Amborella trichopoda. but if you want to do an all time classic friend of this blog you could do Symplocarpus foetidus, the eastern skunk cabbage, which might be easier to research tbh and has tons of charisma, OR you could do one that's really cool in theory but recently has been more up in the air, Boquila trifoliolata, the plant that allegedly can see-- the truth is that we know for sure it mimics the leaves of plants around it, but we don't know for sure how yet, and there's been some controversy about the last big paper published about it in 2021, which claimed it had proved definitively that the plants did mimicry through 'sight'. still very cool though, and the extra attention clearly doesn't hurt in terms of figuring out how it actually works.

#asks #plont asks

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the little guy industrial complex sweeps the competition once again

@superzobat interesting article re: biocrusts

#the little guy industrial complex = lichens/mosses/algae/fungus/bacteria moments #also one thing about what those engineers in the article were saying about engineering biocrusts to protect buildings based off this info #what they do not mention is that they take SOOOO long to form. #INCREDIBLY helpful microhabitat to have develop and theyre known to reduce soil erosion in certain arid habitats in the american southwest #but oh man they take SO long to grow and are SO susceptible to disruption by like. the usual ecological terrors. #it would be cool and useful as hell for them to be on modern buildings but do these engineers have the patience to wait?? #and why invent your own when the guys will do it for you if you let them?? #also theyre citing aesthetics as a reason to not let them grow on stone buildings and im like??????? WHO is saying these things???? #when i see the little guy industrial complex in action i go :) #not wanting them there because they slowly erode stone landmarks is fair enough but at the same time. is it not their god given right #lichens #mosses #biocrusts #microhabitats #also yes this post has like 21 notes but my roommate sent it to me that is why i see it and i look at it with love