northeast naturalist

A true member of the Geranium family, the wild variety has small clusters of flowers with five showy, rose-pink petals. After the petals ...

Can't Beat 'Em? - Eat 'Em! © Dave Spier What's your opinion of dandelions? Consider this: the young leaves ...

© Dave Spier Have you ever found a Variegated (a.k.a. Teratologic) Trillium? I've encountered this variety of Large-flowered Tril...

© Dave Spier There's a wildflower that's trying to take over much of the country from Alaska to Georgia and all of the nort...

Photographing Violets -- © Dave Spier In the past, our front yard under the big shade trees was loaded with wild blue violets, but t...

Last Saturday, the first two purple crocuses (croci if you prefer) appeared in our front yard. No, they didn't actually open that day...

The grackles are back - no surprise here since many types of birds are returning from the South. These are the "half-hardies" ...