Marvelous mangrove buckeye

Pictured above is a mangrove buckeye (Junonia genoveva) that Bob Montanaro and I saw yesterday on the mosquito control dike at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area when he was taking photographs for educational posters for the soon-to-be completed Audubon House.…

Where are the poinsettia flowers ?

Sales of poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are expected to exceed $26 million in 2015. Those showy red 'petals' are really bracts, and even the flowers of the commercial poinsettia are tiny. The most common native "poinsettia" -- Euphorbia cyathophora -- is…