Hello! I‘m an amateur botanist! Welcome to Watching Plant Sex in the Woods- where we learn about plants I find interesting. Hopefully you will too.
Wanna hear my origin story? I’m like Poison Ivy, ya know, from Batman? But like, less cool and more queer-coded.
My Latest Posts
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…
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…
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…
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