Naturally Dirty

Tales from the plant's view

Check out some deeper explorations of different plant species and the amazing things they do through sexy tales or general plant stories.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shy Sapphic Violets

Viola can fertilize themselves underground and were used as a symbol of the underground lesbian culture in the yearly 20th century,...

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...

I Am Subterranean

Relationship Status: Single-year. Non-native nitrogen-fixing legume My name is Trifolium subterraneum; you can call me TRISUB for short. ...