Ostrich fern fiddleheads on nachos

Fiddlehead nacho night.

#TGIFNN #iamabotanist

Botanical chairs at Birmingham It might seem somewhat odd starting a post about the history of botany at The University of Birmingham by writing about that subject at Oxford. But I recently came across a piece of ‘old&#821…

I have enjoyed researching some of the history of botany at the University of Birmingham. #IAmABotanist
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Aristochia fruit split open to show attached heart-shaped seeds.

Last season’s Aristolochia seeds still hanging on… and looking bonkers.

#pipevine #iamabotanist #wildflowerhour

A pale yellow forget-me-not flower just 1 mm across. The floral tube is filled by the five anthers and large stigma, all at the same height. Tiny cellular papillae cover the surfaces of the corolla lobes. The surrounding leaves and bracts have tapering hairs about half a millimetre long. Myosotis brevis is a spring annual found on both main islands of New Zealand, in coastal turf and inland frost flats and tarn margins.

@botsocamerica.bsky.social International Plant Appresiation Day comes in the fall in New Zealand, but here's the world's smallest forget-me-not Myosotis brevis #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #FutureBotanists #STEM

Promotional graphic with a tropical leaf border for International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2026. Features the PlantingScience logo and heading "Mentor Quotes." Two quote bubbles are shown. The first, from Gina Errico, describes students who wanted to grow plants to share food with their community. The second, from Edi Wipf, describes wanting to help make science more accessible and share in the joy of learning and discovery. Bottom text reads "Support student botanical science exploration with a donation to PlantingScience.org today!" Includes a Donate Here label and QR code.

The scientist mentors behind PlantingScience give their time because they believe in the next generation. 🌿

Their words speak volumes about why this program is worth fighting for.
Please donate to PlantingScience today: crm.botany.org/makeadonation

#IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM 🌿

Promotional graphic with a tropical leaf border for International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2026. Features the PlantingScience logo and heading "Teacher Quote." A quote bubble contains a testimonial from Frances Lash describing a student who became fascinated with flower form and structure through the program, with the closing line "That student's experience elevated the whole class." Bottom text reads "Support student botanical science exploration with a donation to PlantingScience.org today!" Includes a Donate Here label and QR code.

Behind every inspired student is a teacher who made it possible. 🌿

This teacher's fond memory captures exactly what PlantingScience makes possible, and why we cannot afford to let it disappear.

Please donate today: crm.botany.org/makeadonation

#IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM 🌿

Promotional graphic with a tropical leaf border for International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2026. Features the PlantingScience logo and heading "Student Quotes." Three quote bubbles contain anonymous student testimonials about how their PlantingScience mentor sparked their interest in plants and science. Bottom text reads "Support student botanical science exploration with a donation to PlantingScience.org today!" Includes a Donate Here label and QR code.

Hear it from the students themselves:
🌿 "His job made me more interested in plants."
🌿 "Plants are something I take for granted."
🌿 "Our mentor made science sound interesting and fun."

Support PlantingScience today! crm.botany.org/makeadonation

#IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM

PlantingScience has inspired nearly 40,000 young scientists over 20 years, but it needs our help to continue. 🌿

Your support means more than ever. Please consider donating to PlantingScience today:
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🌿 #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #FutureBotanists #STEM

It's International Plant Appreciation Day and BSA President Ken Cameron has a message to send! #IPAD2026 #Botany #IamaBotanist
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A large white flower hangs below an umbrella of green leaves. Trillium rugelii - southern nodding wakerobin

Deep marrow flower petals are shown starting to unfold among green leaves. Calycanthus floridus- Carolina sweetshrub

A small white flower with five petals hangs above dark green leaves. Viola primulifolia - primrose-leaved violet

Bright white leaves with yellow centers spring out among bright green leaves low to the ground. Thalictrum thalictroides - rue anemone

Submitted a big grant application last week, so celebrating with a weekend trip to Asheville. Some of the ephemerals are done flowering at the NC Arboretum, but plenty of #spring #wildflowers left!

#WildflowerHour #IAmABotanist

Here you go Bill. A savoury salad made entirely of fruit: rice, sweet corn, cucumber, tomatoes, capsicum, green beans. #Iamabotanist.

Very nice! But the #IAmABotanist in me wants to say, those are of course conifer cones, not fruit 😁

My happiest place on earth #WhoNeedsDisney #IAmABotanist #plantsarecooltoo

Yellow sandstone art deco building with tulip trees outside- PhD lab marked with pink markup scribble (those tulip trees are cyanogenic)

Early 1900s stone building with arched entry, brick paved path to a step with makeshift ramp, euc trees on each side and green grass ; 2 storey with white mullion windows (there were silver birches in my day)

Nice to visit my old stamping ground - Botany @ Melbourne Uni. I was there for a lot of my life - left: Natural philosophy Annex where I did my Hons, MSc + PhD after 15 yr gap; right: botany where I did my undergrad #PlantScience #IAmABotanist

Worth a follow on LinkedIn.

#botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

For #taxonomistappreciationday I offer my efforts at wrapping my head around basal plant systematics.

#iamabotanist

A green gradient promotional graphic for BSA Teaching Section Awards. Two awards are listed with leaf icons. The first is the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award, with a deadline of April 13, 2026, recognizing outstanding contributions to botanical instruction at regional, national, or international levels. The second is the Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award, now open, with a deadline of May 1, 2026, honoring excellence in teaching and service related to botanical education. The Botanical Society of America logo appears in the bottom left, a QR code in the bottom right, and the website www.botany.org/home/awards.html is displayed at the bottom center.

🍃 BSA Teaching Section Awards are open for nominations!

– Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
Deadline April 13, 2026

– Samual Noel Postlethwait Award
Deadline May 1, 2026

Nominate a deserving colleague today!

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#BSAawards #IamaBotanist #BSATeachingSection

Awards leading scientists and educators since 1893

Don't miss out on the #BSAawards with a deadline of THIS SUNDAY, March 15th!

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BSA is giving out over $150,000 in awards this year for students, early-career, mid-career, and professional members!

Apply today!

#BSAtravelawards #BSAresearchawards #Iamabotanist #Botany2026

Yellow fruits

I know, I know, getting excited about Solanum elaeagnifolium in the SW US is something only a total nightshade nerd would do. But. There you have it.

#iamabotanist

Probably Boy Scouts, I know

Omg I found the official @botsocamerica.bsky.social bench in New Mexico. Is there one of these is every state?? Hello, new life list.

#Botany2026 #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

Astragalus blooming against a rocky gray slope.

Astragalus praelongus, one of the few things seen in flower today at Cerrillos Hills State Park, NM.

#phenology #iamabotanist

Green graphic with white and yellow bold text reading "BSA Awards with a March 15, 2026 Deadline." Lists nine awards with leaf icons: Distinguished Fellow; $2,000 Emerging Leader Award; $2,000 Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award; $4,000 Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant - Paleobotanical Section; $2,500 Herman Becker Student Field Work Grant - Paleobotanical Section; $500 Undergraduate Student Research Awards; $1,000 Developing Nations Travel Awards; $500 Professional Members Travel Awards; $595 BSA Student and Postdoc Travel Awards. Includes the URL www.botany.org/home/awards.html, the Botanical Society of America logo, and a QR code.

BSA is set to give out over $150,000 in awards and grants this year — and many have deadlines that are THIS SUNDAY, March 15th!

Travel awards, research awards, and recognition for early-career, mid-career, and professional members.

Learn more: botany.org/home/awards.... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

A glass terrarium setting on a piece of wood and inside the glass there are two diff selaginella species, one very red one very green

Top view of the terrarium

Perks of teaching intro plant biology, my office now is packed with a variety of plants! Please appreciate my Selaginella terrarium muhahahaha #ib103 #plantjoy #iamabotanist

Let a thousand stinky blossoms bloom: how Australia became the world’s corpse flower destination Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators

Its a good day when stories about plants appear in my news feed : #IAmABotanist #plants 🌱🌳🪴 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Ya se puede descargar el volumen completo de BSEB con los artículos publicados en 2025 y nuevas secciones. Esperamos que os guste!

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#bryology #IamaBotanist

14 people posing in the herbarium, with mounted specimens in the foreground

Very happy to host almost 40 folks in the Manning Herbarium today through the Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning. So many excellent questions and lots of genuine interest in why collections matter. #iamabotanist

Close-up photograph of a green and yellow flower bud background with overlaid text announcing a Botanical Society of America award. The graphic reads: “Call for Nominations — Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award.” It notes nomination help for students is available through March 23 and lists the award deadline as April 13, 2026. The BSA logo and a QR code appear at the bottom with a link to botany.org/home/awards.html.

Nominations are open for the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to botanical education.

Student & early career nomination support available through March 23.

Deadline: April 13, 2026.

Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAawards #IamaBotanist

So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏

#IAmABotanist 🌱

Students from the Herbarium Curation course in Bucknell’s herbarium

Pleasure to host Donald McClelland’s Lycoming College students in the Manning Herbarium this afternoon. Central PA PUI botany powers, unite!

#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW