Self-Pollination of Bloodroot: Ensuring Reproductive Success in Uncertain Times

Small carpenter bee, Ceratina sp.

Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis is one of the first wildflowers to flower in the spring. The showy white petals are over two inches in width and open fully on sunny, warm, spring days. Flowers close up at night as temperatures drop and look like white candlesn with the solitary blue-gray leaf wrapped around the stem acting [...]

Native Plants, Native Bees and Your Dinner Table

Bumble bee on milkweed

  I often think if I had it all to do again, I would become an entomologist. Ever since an entomologist, Doug Tallamy, turned me on to the critical connection between native plants and native insects with his book Bringing Nature Home, a new, fascinating world has opened up. Every chance I get I move [...]

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