Author: WPS-with Lily

• January 20, 2026

  Endemic Plants Map of Nevada

  Nevada endemic plants map Dropbox link Recently, two members of the Nevada Native Plant Society and the Museum of Natural History at the University of Nevada- Arnold (Jerry, by those who know him) Tiehm, and Jan Nachlinger- Reno published an annotated checklist of Nevada’s vascular flora. This publication is the fruit of over 50 years…
• February 20, 2025

  Hey, What the Fuck Are We Doing?

  A Plea From an American Laborer TLDR: Table of Contents: Introduction Normally, I write education posts on plant biology and related sciences, but the recent degradation of our nation’s mores and rule of law has pushed me to take a change of pace; science as we know it cannot meaningfully exist in authoritarian regimes. I…
• June 18, 2024

  WPSW Moves West

  A Case Study into Roadside Botany. Table of Contents: A Change of Scenery Recently, if you don’t follow me on Instagram (you should), you would know I quit my decent-paying job as an arborist in Ohio to pursue my aspirations of becoming a botanist. This involved me moving my poor self to Reno, NV- a…
• July 19, 2023

  What’s the Deal With Asclepias?

  Table of Contents: Milkweed 101 There’s something creeping its way through our American landscape, a quiet, unassuming thing. Maybe you have seen them along the sides of roadways, in open fields, or in someone’s front garden. It seems more and more to be a force that cannot be stopped. Has milkweed hypnotized the nation, or…
• June 11, 2023

  Slip Into the Lady Slippers

  May into June is a wonderful time to botanize in the Midwest. Warming temperatures, lengthening days, and increased rainfall- although this year less so- produce an affluence of plants in bloom. May in the Midwest, although, can still dip into freezing temperatures or potential snowfall, so, cold-tolerance adaptations are a necessity for May plants. Orchids…