Tag: botany

• Podcast SHORT: Plant or Fungi?

  

  A random find while hiking that lead to a life history story that was unexpectedly fascinating.

  Devon Bowker

  December 23, 2018

  Plants, The Podcast, The Wild Life Blog

  botany, environment, fungi, mycology, naturalist, nature, parasite, plant, podcast, the wild life, thewildlife, wood wide web

• This Toxic, Nectarless Flower is Spread by Ants

  

  Bloodroot is a perennial native to North America and blooms between March and May. It’s called Bloodroot because if you were to break open the stem or roots, it bleeds. If you’ve ever done so, congratulations, you are a murderer—just kidding. The “blood” is a sap and is a deep, rich, reddish-orange.

  Devon Bowker

  May 14, 2018

  Plants, The Wild Life Blog

  ants, biology, bloodroot, botany, ecology, elaiosome, elder scrolls, hiking, hiking find, mille lacs, mille lacs kathio state park, minnesota, naturalist, plants, Sanguinaria canadensis, sanguivore, skyrim, symbiosis, wilderness, wildernessculture, wildflower