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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.


Rosas by Any Other Thorn - ID guide by thorns or by clusters
The Rose family (Rosaceae) is full of stars. Actually, the flowers are like rounded stars themselves, with iconic 5-petals with rounded...
4 min read


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...
5 min read


The Woman is a Tiger
tiger/Columbia lily- exotic looking lily native to various open areas in PNW from lowlands to alpine habitat.
3 min read


When you spill tea all over your foot because of cute seedlings
You know that excitement of seeing new tiny life emerge from the soil, poking its little cotelydon'd head through the harsh grains and...
1 min read


Shy Sapphic Violets
Viola can fertilize themselves underground and were used as a symbol of the underground lesbian culture in the yearly 20th century,...
6 min read


Summer of Sumore S’mores:
Did you know the Girl Scouts “invented” the s’more? That’s a good claim to fame I think. I thought they were just about the cookies. ...
6 min read


Liquid Gold Summer Taste Testing
Ever go a little overboard on unique edible items because you wanted to know how they all compared? I feel like that's a pretty good way...
5 min read


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...
3 min read


When you have to wait in line to bathe
collecting fall leaves, then giving them a bath
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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. ...
2 min read
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