Articles of interest

• As the Vine Twines by Jan Haldeman
  Excerpted from Pause for Plants, 4 July 2007.
• Cool-season Turfgrass Identification from Pennsylvania State Extension Service.
• Dandelions, True or False? by Jan Haldeman
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Gardening for Life by Doug Tallamy
         “Humans cannot live as the only species on this planet because it is other species that create the ecosystem services essential to our survival. Every time we force a species to extinction we promote our own demise. Biodiversity is not optional....”
• How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany by Asa Gray
  A two-chapter excerpt from a high school textbook first published in 1858 and in use into the early 20th century.
  From the book... “Considering of plants inquiringly and intelligently is the study of Botany....
         “To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language.
         “For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.”
• Identifying Native Bamboos by Margaret C. Cirtain
  Dichotomous Key for identification of Arundinaria by Lynn G. Clark and J.K. Triplett
  Morphological comparison of Arundinaria appalachiana, A. tecta, and A. gigantea by Jimmy K. Triplett
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Invasive Alert: The insidiously invasive Lesser Celandine by Marianne Cote
  Reprinted from the the Spring 2011 edition of New Leaf, the newsletter of the Botanical Gardens at Asheville.
• Joseph Lord, Natural Scientist by Amy Hackney Blackwell
  Reprinted from Chinquapin, the newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
         “We can’t go out in the field to survey the plants that were growing in 1700. But thanks to people like Lord, amateurs with the guts to submit their work to the larger scientific community, we have data we could never collect ourselves.”
• Lespedeza Species in the Carolinas by Bill Stringer
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Native Wisteria by Jan Haldeman
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Orchids of the Francis Marion National Forest by Jim Fowler
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Plant Origin Terms by Bill Stringer
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• South Carolina's Native Magnolias by Richard B. Figlar
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• The Erosion of Collections-Based Science: Alarming Trend or Coincidence?
  From the The Plant Press, A quarterly newsletter from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (10-28-2014).
         “The scientists who study, preserve, and curate historic and otherwise important botanical specimens, have been fired, downsized, forced into retirement, or had their focus directed away from taxonomy and systematics. It is troubling that there seems to be an alarming trend in museum and garden administrations to devalue collections and the staff who study and care for them. This is a critical point in time to work toward a world-wide effort to stop and reverse this attrition.”
• The Genus Baptisia in South Carolina by Bill Stringer
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• The Other Bluestems by Patrick McMillan
  Reprinted from the Journal of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
• Under the radar? Ficaria verna quietly naturalizing in the Southeast by Jane K. Marlow, Jeffery L. Beacham, and William C. Stringer
  Reprinted from Wildland Weeds a publication of the Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council.
• Wetlands by Richard D. Porcher and Douglas A. Rayner
  Adapted from A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina.
  
  
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