Paleoplant

Catskill livin’ #catskills #neversink #neversinkreservoir #optoutside (at Neversink Reservoir) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpWJOPHCju/?utm_medium=tumblr

This is a first for me in the wild... Lygodium palmatum. This genus is a vine-like fern. It has adorable mitten-like leaflets, and the “vine” is actually a frond that grows indeterminately. That’s weird for leaf! #botany #fern #lygodium #vine #plantsareawesome #optoutside (at Long Pond, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPwQ5YbnjHm/?utm_medium=tumblr

So adorable... so prickly... so hungry. #porcupine #erethizon #optoutside #nature #catskills #ulstercountyny #grahamsville (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUAJ5EHUk6/?utm_medium=tumblr

Here’s one I don’t see every day on the streets of Manhattan… Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea). Notice the arrangement of the leaflets on these compound leaves. They are alternate and pinnate BUT with alternately-arranged leaflets. I don’t think I know of another local tree it does this, but maybe somebody else does. #citytrees #cladrastiskentukea #yellowwood #compoundleaves (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPHJiBbnwA6/?utm_medium=tumblr

The American chestnuts made through another winter... #castanea #chestnut #catskills #ilovebotany #nativetrees (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO_CSfOnrBO/?igshid=f0ipj4aln35n

Some (normal) people get excited for gifts. Others get giddy about catching wood horsetails making cones 😍😊 #equisetum #equisetumsylvaticum #pteridophytes #monilophytes #botany #spores #horsetails https://www.instagram.com/p/CObeyflnWUj/?igshid=s62lxell748f

The cones of Equisetum arvense. Definitely producing lots of spores. I’m going to sow some and see if I get gametophytes... (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/COHEWzWnpuW/?igshid=vuntlodwjpo2

Merry Cycadmas! #cycad #cycadmas (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIZCZnwg5VC/?igshid=1bp4216l8xfv8

The tradition continues... (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIHNURwg0_F/?igshid=6d8znq4nq5ro

Who doesn’t love a nice palm tree moss (Climacium dendroides)?! (at Catskill Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHxVIZgrkN/?igshid=3bj6axpq8gt3

Asplenium trichomanes, maidenhair spleenwort, growing next to a beautiful waterfall in the Catskills (at Catskill Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHweHKA72j/?igshid=1h3n86lf1bran

My family takes me to the purtiest places... (at Trout Creek) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtWqSPAYUa/?igshid=4w4jufh24og7

Bazzania trilobata.. the whipwort! (at Trout Creek, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtWh7Ug695/?igshid=d808nr8asyum

That was very quick... Jack-in-the-Pulpits appeared today! (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAS-GK2AQF_/?igshid=z2z7d3le9e67

Wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum) while out for a loooong walk #equisetum #horsetail #equisetumsylvaticum (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAODQVYgdFY/?igshid=1c4x2jc39bi22

Playing around with the dissecting scope and my iPhone. Looking at the cones of a horsetail (Equisetum arvense) with whorled sporangiophores and spore sacs. #microscope #horsetail #equisetum #AnythingToDistractMeFromCoronaVirus (at Rondout Reservoir) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0fi4OAOZG/?igshid=121b6ib2ceg29

Building treehouse with the kid... well more like a deck in the trees. (at Grahamsville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_s6Jq3AT1_/?igshid=2n5cyerrjnm4