2022.08.06 Platanthera chapmanii “Anxiously awaiting anthesis of these four Platantheras, anticipating they will turn out to be white, and thus some incarnation of P. blephariglottis (though the spur seems a bit short). Stay tuned. If not consumed by a deer, I should know this week.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128824404372360491?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.02 Eriocaulon. “With tiny flowers borne in a capitate inflorescence, on a long stem, Eriocaulons can be readily spotted, though the tiny flowers make them a bit mysterious. Each flower head sports functionally male and functionally female flowers (monoecious), so reduced as to have basically lost visible petals.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128857660774157614?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.03 Balduina. “A glance at The composite, Balduinia, followed by examination of Rhexia petiolata” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128870337231736110?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.04. “You’ll find Balduina uniflora (I added a syllable and mistakenly said “Balduinia”) scattered throughout Apalachicola National Forest. The developing disk flowers resemble honeycomb, which gives this plant its common name – “One-flower Honeycombhead” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128874374001626411?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.05. “Two different white-flowered daisies showing forth in the pine flatwoods – both making flowers in flat-topped inflorescences. The smaller is Sericocarpus tortifolius, while the larger plant is Eupatorium album. The name Sericocarpus references silky (sericos) hairs covering the fruit (carpus). Eupatorium is an older name, assigned by Linnaeus based on spurious association with the famed Mithridates Eupator and his antidotes to poisons.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128888894946544942?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.05. “Watching a Papilio visit the very curious Zigadenus glabberimus. Its common name (Sandbog Death Camus) no longer makes sense, in that Death Camus (native to Western North America), which at one time was in the genus Zigadenus, is now classified in a separate genus (i.e. Toxicoscordion venenosum). Watch the next video for a closer examination of the flowers” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128914710258306350?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.07. “Taking a closer look at flowers of Zigadenus glaberrimus. Really cool” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128916533119683883?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.06.08. “Exploring Apalachicola National Forest for isolated, small populations of Platanthera chapmanii, noting that pollination success seems greater (totally conjecture) away from the main highway, and wondering if on-going blasts of wind from traffic along SR65 (constantly blowing off my hat) impact activity of Papilios” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7128920010076081451?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.07.01. “The Order Asparagales, in modern systematics, embraces many plants we used to place in the Liliales. Think of Amaryllids, Irids (Irises), Aloe and relatives like leek, Daylilies, and even Orchids as falling into this Order. This realignment trimmed the Liliales down to a more concise branch (clade), including Lilies, Alstroemerias, Smilax, Trillium, and Veratrum” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129235102097280299?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.07.02. “Botanists have tighter definitions for many words that in common lingo are less circumscribed. When a plant generates a structure inside which seed are produced, that’s an ovary, which at maturity is a fruit.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129238552147397934?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.07.03. “In modern classification, algae are no longer part of the Plant Kingdom. Spirulina is a Blue-green alga (Kingdom Cyanobacteria), basically in the Domain with Bacteria. It isn’t even a “Eukaryote”” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129240696858479915?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.07.04. “Maca (Lepidium meyenii), Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Peanut (Arachis hypogea), and Potato (Solanum tuberosum) are among the most important subterranean crops native to South America” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129242792081083694?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.07.05. “Another native Hibiscus (H. laevis) flowers in our small botanical display on St. George Island.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129243659848928554?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.08.01. “Southern Live Oaks along the coast support a good cover of Pleopeltis (Polypodium) polypodioides , one of many plants called Resurrection Fern” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129567586613857579?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.08.02. “A handsome crop of developing acorns on Quercus virginiana suggest this will be a good “mast” year. This tree is able to support large, wonderfully long and horizontal lateral branches” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129573164480318763?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.08.03. “I have to work constantly to get my head around different levels of floral complexity – single flowers with multiple pistils as compared to things like daisies that are heads of flowers masquerading as single blossoms, or single multicarpellate pistils. Name a possible combination and some plant seems to do that” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129583881833024814?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.08.04. “A tiny Cucurbit, Melothria pendula (some folks call it “Melonette”) may seem frail, but this plant is robust enough to get around. The fruit is like a miniature watermelon or gourd” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7129693817686560046?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.11.01 “For-real. Platanthera blephariglottis flowering now, south of Sumatra in Apalachicola National Forest. Note the very long spur, reduced fringe on the lip, and the widely divergent anther viscidia – just right for pollination by a large, hovering moth” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7130685077562068270?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.11.02. “Lilium catesbaei flowering along with Platanthera blephariglottis and other high treats in this boggy edge” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7130686088863157547?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.11.03. “More Platanthera blephariglottis evidences a larger population than I thought. The crinkly sound is rain on my umbrella” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7130694043427720494?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.13.01. “A flower of Platanthera blephariglottis (to my mind this concept includes the conspicua and integrilabia forms) bears a single anther that develops as two divergent chambers, each chamber producing a pollinium with a stipe that terminates in a sticky viscidium” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7131507280712830254?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.13.02. “A happy encounter with a white-flowered Liatris in Florida’s Apalachicola National Forest” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7131512954960530734?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.13.03. “Finally encountering a small stand of Platanthera integra – aided through some directional help by Mike Hanson, who we encountered in the forest while he was capturing plant and animal photos” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7131515467919052078?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.01. “We encountered significant populations of truly lovely Eryngium aquaticum in wet ditches along side roads near Gardener Landing, north of Eastpoint, FL.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132964798999989550?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.02. “Sharing a particularly nice stand of the tall, lanky Asclepias lanceolata – several plants having produced fruit” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132984956950777130?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.03. “Checking out a spectacular colony of Hibiscus aculeatus. Look at the toothed petals” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132989520886172970?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.04. Liatris spicata. “Sometimes called Blazing Star, this Liatris could be called Shooting Star.. It easily tops 7’” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132990463400873258?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.05. Asclepius obovata. “Asclepias obovata dwarfed by young Longleaf Pines along a comparatively dry edge. The leaves are elliptic-oblong, making me wonder whether some plants have obovate foliage…. or if the “obovata” relates to another part.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132993327829437742?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.06. Platanthera chapmanii. “Another visit to the growing colony of Platanthera chapmanii along a busy byway through Apalachicola National Forest . Does traffic interfere with activity of pollinators?” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132995521454574890?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.07. “Hoping (someday) to determine what insect visitors effectively pollinate flowers of. this really curious Zigadenus glaberrimus” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132996778487549230?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.08. “It’s mid-August in the Panhandle, kind of late to encounter Pogonia in flower. The main cohort was done by end of May.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132998392023747883?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.17.09. “A few plants of Utricularia tell us that these Saraccenia flava live in nearly permanently-standing water” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7132999484107279659?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.20.01. “Folks around me really like potatoes, so I peel quite a few, and have tried various techniques to peel these STEMS. Yes, potatoes are “tubers” – which is the term for fleshy underground stems. Roots that are swollen and fleshy are said to be “tuberous” – which signifies they “look like” tubers.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134049940036144427?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.01. “Botanically (despite the 1893 Supreme Court tax ruling), tomatoes are fruit. I guess that wasn’t the only time the Court denied scientific evidence” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134289186789592362?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.02. “More on the Franklin County, FL, population of Platanthera blephariglottis (a name that combines “eyelashes” with “lip”). Visiting with David Roddenberry, we countrd at least 60 flowering individuals” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134369705338408235?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.03. “You’ll draw a lot of short straws searching for general info on Xyris in the WWW. Even the word Xyris gets you to disagreements. Botanists might say this is another term for Iris, co-opted for these plants because of the fan-shaped leaves. Others go straight to the Greek term “gladen”, for sword-shaped leaves, wjich also seems to be the source of the word Gladiolus” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134392922715229483?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.03. “Taking notes on the Platanthera blepharoglottis population Ive been showing you” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134393554935532846?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.04. “A snippet on a charming Polygala that seems to be P. brevifolia, flowering in small drifts in pine flatwoods at the edgenof a bog on Apalachicola National Forest” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134394207883578667?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08,21.05. “What a hoot! Pinguicula planifolia seems totally fine with inundation. Do collectors grow this plant submerged (at least periodically)?” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134395711084432683?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.07. “Fortunate to have some field time with David Roddenberry, i get to short-circuit working the keys, as David tells me the names of some Composites.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134397595257998634?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.08. “Submerse youself with me for a moment as we compare leaf structure of two Baptisias, the endemic Baptisia simplicifolia and the more widespread Gopherweed, Baptisia lanceolata. Other plant groups (i.e. Rhus) with compound leaves may also include single-leaved taxa…” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134401125259791662?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.21.09. “The Spatterdock, Nuphar advena, produces these globose, nearly leathery flowers, Botanists consider the conspicuous green to yellow perianth as the calyx, obscuring the scaly, inconspicuous petals. The top yellow disk is a compound ovary, forming something of an umbrella over multitudinous, spirally-attached flattened yellow stamens that peel down as they mature. It is an oddly elegant flower” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7134417191377587502?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.25.01. “Intro to a slightly longer post (the following post) on the curious daisy, Symphyotrichum subulatum, the Annual Saltmarsh Aster.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7135843998438133038?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.25.02. “The longer clip on Symphyotrichum subulatum, in which I explain what I’ve uncovered about this truly curious daisy.. (Note I said “glaucous”, when I meant to say “glabrous”, I.e. hairless)” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7135853384673791278?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.25.03. “When life gives you lemons, add the zest and juice from at least 7 fruit (a half cup) to a sauce pan in which you’ve reheated a couple of cans of Lucky Leaf lemon filling, amped up with 3 jumbo egg yolks and 1 cup heavy cream, combined with a Tbs of sifted cornstarch. Pour the mixture into a blind-baked pie shell and chill.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7135856621820972331?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.25.04. “Watching folk on TikTok, I’ve seen many ways people shuck fresh corn. Botanically (structurally), I find this method helps clean the ear of the silks, each not which is attached to a different kernel. Without the silks (which are the styles) you’d have no kernel development, since a pollen tube has to grow through each silk to deposit sperm and endosperm nuclei that fertilized the attached ovule.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7135923908519267626?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.27.01. “Having relocated to the Southeast after 36 years living in SoCal, we’ve searched, but failed to find Mexican-style food (OK, really TexMex) that suits our taste. So it’s up to me to generate the dishes we miss. Fun and satisfying.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7136685625369054510?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.01. “Flowering doesn’t abate here in the Apalachicola pine flatwoods, with a host of lovely composites and other herbs bringing interest and delight. But Eden has snakes.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137069291165207850?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.02. “Encountering a dense stand of the wirey, stiffly erect Utricularia juncea (tentative) in a shallow bog. Note the evident spur (nectary), which is a few millimeters long (less than a centimeter)” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137081130788113710?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.03. “Sabatia brevifolia pops up in the Pine flatwoods understory, each plant like a small galaxy of brilliant white stars. And you don’t need the James Webb telescope to discover them.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137084508867890478?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.04. “Could use some help with this one. The plant keys to Cirsium nuttalii, but the flower heads are purely solitary (there’s no branching in the upper half of the plant). Grows in drier edges near wetlands.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137089953871187243?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.05. “Liatris spicata in full flowering throughout Apalachicola National Forest. Like most composites, it’s available to a wide range of insect visitors.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137091441985097003?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.06. “Papilios are the pollinators of Platanthera chapmanii, carrying the pollinia attached to their proboscises. Papilios also pollinate the related P. ciliaris, but pollinia of that Fringed Orchid attach to the butterflies’ compound eyes (due to the longer floral spur)
2022.08.28.07. “Asclepias lanceolata flower clusters bob around swampy edges, usually 3-4 feet off the ground, like little ornaments that (from a distance) evidence no means of physical support.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137095061602356526?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.08. “The bright and spritely Rudbeckia mohrii flowers in late summer, occupying similar habitats to the curious R. graminifolia, and following it in flowering season. Asa Gray named the plant honoring Mohr from a specimen C.T.Mohr himself collected at Dead Lakes, (near Wewahitcka) in 1880” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137099397187374378?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.09. “A spectacular specimen of Callicarpa americana, American Beautyberry. It’s nearest relatives are the deciduous species from Asia, but evergreen, tropical Callicarpa are found native to South America, Australia, and even Madagascar” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137100842041101614?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.10. “Gonna be hard to make an association with this name… Arnoglossum could be parsed to mean “lamb’s tongue”, but appears to have been adopted from an ancient name for a European Plantaginaceae with similar foliage.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137104824235085098?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.11. “I dropped handling the fruit (and washed my hands) of the Geobalanus because it has an incredible raunchy smell many botanists term seminal, or seminiferous, like flowers of Chestnut and Pyrus calleryana, but stronger. I’m told Gopher Tortoises like it. Save me.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137108826687278382?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.12. “A flowering and a fruiting plant of Asclepias cinerea, a delicate, milkweed that occurs sparsely, but generally throughout the Pine flatwoods here north of Apalachicola.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137110352109620523?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.28.13. “This modest, inconspicuous Savannah Milkweed was first described by Thomas Walter. It’s species number 10, on page 106 of Walter’s 1788 Flora caroliniana. Not much has been published on this plant since first discovery, so its mysteries are yet to be revealed. Thx to Mike Hanson for the location info.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137116495737326894?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.29.01. “Fanning Springs State Park, beautifully clear springs feeding way down on the Suwannee River” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137333797435034926?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.29.02. “A dynamite Taxodium in the clear swamp of Fanning Springs” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137336267884236075?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.29.03. “A visit to the Florida Museum of Natural History, at the Univ of Florida in Gainesville. You’ll find a startling display of butterflies and moths, insects that perfectly evidence coevolutionary relationships with plants” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137373056430804270?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.29.04. “Fanning Springs boardwalk – a nice stop” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137373242389581102?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.29.05. “Wilmot Gardens, on the UF Gainesville campus, complements extensive University health facilities as a healing garden and a site for Horticultural Therapy training” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137400213655866670?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.30.01. “Carol tells me the translation is that the many ingredients are brought together to provide 100% multi-faceted indescribable taste. What a cool box of chocolates. “Life is like a box of chocolates”, but in this case you know what you are getting” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7137839170172489002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.01. “Immediately after filming this, I met Jim Lundquist, the roads manager of Tate’s Hell, and asked him about the Taxodium distichum trees. He contacted one of the Foresters who confirmed the few specimens had been planted as an experiment. We’ll see what happens in the future, hoping they will be removed as being out of place in this natural formation.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138208559560576302?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.02. “The generic name Macranthera references the massive stamens you see clustered at the entrance to the corolla tube. William Bartram was the first to describe the plant, naming it Gerardia flammea (in 1791), his species name recognizing the brilliant orange red flowers.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138214125468929323?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.03. “A nice plant of Baptisia simplicifolia, with final frames showing a nearly mature pod, and right above it you can see a smaller, maturing pod” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138215590128258346?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.04. “A nice population of Lilium catesbaei, flowering toward the end of the season, here is the pine flatwoods of Apalachicola National Forest” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138216916937723182?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.05. “A footnote on Lilium catesbaei, showing a plant in bud” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138217461605879083?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934
2022.08.31.06. “Uggh. I guess this plant corresponds best to descriptions of L. chapmanii and L. pauciflora, but it’s way north in Apalachicola National Forest. It’s really attractive, but these forms are not easily identified.” https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyincontext/video/7138223785458601258?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6983645829257020934