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Jan 23, 20194 min read
Duckweed or Suckweed? Tiny Plants Turn Out to be Interesting!
by Julie Everett Growing up, I had a forsythia bush in my backyard. For some reason, each spring my sister and I would always eat the...
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Dec 19, 20184 min read
A Triad Romance
by Charles W. Bier I don’t know when I first began to really know trees. As a youngster, I was literally a snake-in-my-pocket sort of...
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Nov 28, 20183 min read
Tundra cloud(berrie)s
by Briana Jasinski I was first introduced to cloudberries via the name of a man-made structure. This structure was a slowly dilapidating...
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Oct 10, 20183 min read
The Defender of Plants
by Matt Candeias The first time I saw lupine blooming in the wild, a blanket of purplish blue flowers swaying softly, covering an Indiana...
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Sep 18, 20183 min read
Fall(ing) for the Prairie
by Rebecca Tonietto Hi! 👋 My name is Rebecca Tonietto and I am one of the founding members of Plant Love Stories - which is why it may...
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Sep 6, 20182 min read
PLS Summer Recap
Summer is winding down in our half of the world, so we thought we would take some time to reminisce on our summer travels. Plant Love...
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Aug 8, 20183 min read
Low Elevation Alpine Love - LIVE
by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Our second audio story is here! You can hear Caitlin's story using the video link below. A transcript is...
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Jul 11, 20184 min read
La Brea Plant Love
by Mikayla Mason My name is Mikayla Mason and I have absolutely no memory of a time in my life when I did not love working with plants....
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Jun 13, 20183 min read
Desert Beauty
by Thomas Oberbauer ​​Growing up in San Diego County in Southern California, I was exposed to a wide variety of habitats during weekend...
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Jun 6, 20183 min read
The Plants That Made Me Quit My Job
by Emmi Kurosawa I was working at a pharmaceutical company for the longest time, saving lives and making a happy living for myself......
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May 8, 20183 min read
Story of a Rare Plant Picture
by Thomas Oberbauer For a number of years during the mid 1970’s, I searched for rare plants on San Clemente Island in southern...
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Apr 11, 20184 min read
Plants and Places
by Andrew Hipp "And so, when his prescribed devotion to boyish beauties has carried our candidate so far that the universal beauty dawns...
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Mar 21, 20182 min read
The Juncus People
by Lucy Zipf Black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) is the dominant plant species in the wide, flat marshes that surround the Pamlico...
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Feb 28, 20182 min read
Low Elevation Alpine Love
by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie I fell in love with alpine plants at the bottom of the mountain. In college I worked as an environmental...
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