Avalanche Bros: Erythronium grandiflorum
There’s a disturbance in the woods. The snow has melted in most places, the skiers have slipped away with the entrance of spring. And...
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Welcome to the Natural Coalescence Blog
Here you will find botanical tales and planty fun of all kinds with botany nerding and ecology through a entertaining lens.
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Some Call Me Chocolate
You know how it is. When you're a pretty little thing with a brown complexion, folks tend to nickname ya "Chocolate". Not that I have...
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Crinkly Crocus
Hey ya doll. Don’t you mind me, or should I say “us”. We certainly don’t mind this snow that can’t resist showing up again after a long...
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The Marvelous Ms. Malus: She's no bad apple.
At the edge of a forest, near a centennial remnant of crumbling cedar fence, there’s a gnarled struggling tree of knotted branch tangles...
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Sapiosexual Quercus: Oaks
Santa Claus may have all the ho’s, but it is the stoic oaks that draw the sapiosexuals to wrap an arm about their branch and light up...
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The Vampire Orobanche
A look back on the dark story of a prairie parasite for the stormy days. It was a dark and stormy prairie. The oscillating early spring...
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Shy Sapphic Violets
Viola can fertilize themselves underground and were used as a symbol of the underground lesbian culture in the yearly 20th century,...
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Trailer Park Shorties – Roadside Bicolors
Lupinus bicolor: tough little cuties perfectly at home next to a hot compacted gravel road. We’re tiny cuties you can find along quite a...
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I Am Subterranean
Relationship Status: Single-year. Non-native nitrogen-fixing legume My name is Trifolium subterraneum; you can call me TRISUB for short. ...
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