Virtual Archives -- 2010 - 2019

Each On the Fringe publication contains well written and informative articles on plants, ecology, plant science, nature, and so much more. As you read through the pages of earlier publications, the evolving history of the Native Plant Society of NEO comes alive as do the contributions over the years of many dedicated men and women who possessed ageless curiosity and shared care and concern for native plants and good stewardship of our natural world. Their individual actions and collective efforts made a difference.
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Original publications of On the Fringe are archived at The Cleveland Musuem of Natural History. These historical documents are currently under the care of the museum's librarian Wendy Wasman and are available for viewing in the museum's Harold T. Clark Library.


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Articles
Wild Collecting Increases the Possibility of Extinction,
Kathy Hanratty
Native Plant Gardening
Invasive Plants – Lesser Naiad and Curly Pondweed
Pretty Partridgeberry, Marielle Anzelone
Wild Geranium: A Crane’s Bill, Gordon Mitchell
Wild Savory, Charles Kinsley
The Nature of Nectar, Niall Dunn
Return of the American Chestnut, Jim Durrell
Devil’s Walking Stick, George Ellison
A Floristic Inventory of Marco Island, Jean Roche and
George Wilder
Orchid Talking Points, Tom Sampliner
A Duneland Carnivore, Barbara Plampin
Book Review by Tom S. Cooperrider
Botanical Essays from Kent
Articles
Sidewalk Garden at the Zoo, Jean Loria
Black Gum: Rabbit Traps and Bee Gums,
George Ellison
Middle Bass, Debbie Woischke
Archives: The Elusive Gentians, Perry Peskin
On a Bog Garden, Don Peters
Round-Leaved Sundew, Gordon Mitchell
A Rare Find: Sourwood Oxydendrum arboreum,
Marion T. Jackson
Parasitic Plants of Central Pennsylvania, Joel McNeal
Redbud – Cercis canadensis, Robert L. Tener
The Pleasing Persimmon, Maggie Whitson
Ohio Native Graces Swedish Postage Stamp
Book Review
Wildflowers in the Field and Forest, Steven Clements and
Carol Gracie
Articles
Show and Tell, Rollie Henkes
All in the Family, Richard J. Hull
Eastern Red Cedar, Robert L. Tener
American Lotus, Gordon Mitchell
Flower Fireworks in Northern Ohio, Tom Sampliner
Natural Meadows: Challengers and Charms, Carry Plunkett
Prairie Smoke, Emony Nicholls
Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve
Botanizing in Greene County, Pennsylvania,
Dr. Mary J. Haywood
Partridge-berry, Ann Mitchell Seemann
Invasive Plants of Ohio - Eurasian Water-Milfoil
New Program Certifies Forage and Mulch Free
of Noxious Weed Seeds
Book Review by Tom Sampliner
Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden,
John M. Randall (Editor), Janet Marinelli (Editor)
Articles
The Mushroom Origins of Santa and Flying Reindeer,
Tom Sampliner
American Ginseng, Eric Burkhart
The Happy Herbivore, Blithsome Borage, Scott D. Appell
Coffetree, Robert Tener
Conservation in Action at Orchard Hills Park, Paige Hosier
Polygonaceae: The Smartweed Family, Landon McKinney
Sassafras albidum, Mitten Tree, Marion T. Jackson, Ph.D.
Indian Pipe, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: The Doctrine of Signatures, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: Japanese Knotweed
Book Review
Invasive Plant Medicine, Timothy Lee Scott
Articles
Wood Poppy: Rare For a Reason, Jane Bowles
Skunk Cabbage, The Year’s First New Wildflower, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Woodland Dental Hygiene, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: May’s the Month To Pull Garlic Mustard
Mad About Moss, Joni Blackburn
Old Woman Creek: A National Estuarine Research Reserve
& State Nature Preserve
, ODNR
Do We Need a Purple Dead Nettle Festival?, Charlie Lapham
Book Review
Go Native! Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers
in the Lower Midwest
, Carolyn Harstad
Articles
A Pear by Any Other Name, Ellen Jacquart
Swamp Milkweed, Melanie Choukas-Bradley
An 18th Century Botanist, Bev Stamp
Downspout Bog Gardens, North American Native Plant Society
Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve, ODNR
White Water Lily, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Green Medicine, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: Smooth Brome
Book Review
New Book on Prairie ecology & management, Chris Helzer
Articles
Common Arrowhead, Gordon Mitchell
Invasive Plant: Japanese Chaff Flower, Chris Evans
An 18th Century American Botanist, Beverly Stamp
Fungi: Friends and Foes, Dawes Arboretum
Maumee Bay, Ohio State Park
Book Worth Looking At: Bringing Nature Home
Weed Seed Dispersal by Earthworm, Emilie Regnier
Poem: To the Fringed Gentian, William Cullen Bryant
Sundew, Tom Sampliner
Folklore: Beechdrops, Mark Howes
Articles
Wild Strawberry, Gordon Mitchell
Winter Woods, Tom Snyder
Gross Memorial Woods SNP, ODNR
Key to the Conifirs of the Great Lakes Region,
Tom Sampliner
Pernicious Periwinkle, Ruth Ann Ingraham
An 18th Century American Botanist, Parts III & IVA,
Beverly Stamp
From the Archive: Leopold‘s Lament, Brian Parsons
Book Review by Joy Kiser
Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio
Articles
Preserving Biodiversity: Is it too late?, Jeff Knoop
Common Blue Violet, Marney Bruce
Spring’s Edible Gifts, Debbie Naha
Native Plant Communities of Lake Vermillion State Park,
Tavis Westbrook
Invasive Plants:
Are “Sterile” Cultivars Safe?
, Sheilah Lombardo
An 18th Century American Botanist, Beverly Stamp
Plant Lore: Northern Bush Honeysuckle, Thor Kommedahl
Poem: The Path Not Taken, Lauren Brown
Book Review by Tom Sampliner
Wildflower Wonders:
The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World
, Bob Gibbons
Articles
Archive Article: Vittaria Gametophytes
Discovered in a New Physiographic Province
, Allison W. Cusick
Book Note: America’s Other Audubon, Joy Kiser
Invasive Plant: Fighting Hydrilla in the Cayuga Inlet
Poem: Orchid Hunt, Kenneth Hull
Weird Plants:
Native Plants Can Have a Real Wild Side
, Chet Neufeld
Archive Article: Native American Medicinal Use of Trees
State Park: Rhododendron Cove State Nature Preserve
Articles
Archive Article: Comments from the President,
Ann Malmquist
Archive Article: Woody Plants and
the Drought of ’88 (and 2012)
, Charles Tubesing
Forest Ecology – Great Lakes Worm Watch website
Two Colorful Wetland Plants: The Cardinal Flower and
The Great Blue Lobelia
, Gordon Mitchell
Invasive Plants: Salt Cedar
New Botanical Nomenclature Rules Are Now In Effect,
Shirley Mah Kooyman
Bottle Gentians, Anne S. Bahl
Plant Lore, Speckled Adler, Thor Kommedahl
Book Review by David Keifer
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature
in a Post-Wild World
, Emma Marris
Articles
The Year in Review – 2012, Message from the President,
Judy Barnhart
Statement of the NPSNEO
Upon Awarding Perry Peskin the Gentian Award for 2012
Archive Article: Winter Nature Interpretation,
Emliss Ricks
Ancient Seeds Grown
A Near Perfect Plant: Creeping Wintergreen, Gene Bush
Invasive Plants: ‘Non-Invasive’ Cultivar? Buyer Beware
State Park: Augusta-Anne Olsen State Nature Preserve
Ohio Native Plant Collaborative, Lori Totman
Why are some plant species able to coexist
while others cannot?
, Jean Burns
Folklore: The Wonder Tree: Eastern Hemlock, Robert L. Tener
Archive Article: Ohio Polygonums, Clinton H. Hobbs
Musings on the Society’s Thirtieth Anniversary,
Tom Sampliner
Book Review by Tracey Knierim
Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast, A Natural History,
Carol Gracie
Articles
Letter from president of our Society and from
president of ONAPA about the urgent need to help ONAPA
,
Kathryn Hanratty and Guy Denny
Gott Fen Nature Preserve
Book Highlight: The Search for Lost Habitats,
Chapter 10: Orchidophilia
, Perry Peskin
Folklore: Natural History of Maple Syrup, Stephen G. Saupe
Invasive Plant: Mile-A-Minute Weed, Persicaria perfoliata L.
Interesting Factoid: Jeffersonia diphylla (L.), Twinleaf
Fern in Focus: Royal Fern, Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Articles
Two Weeks and 38 Orchids in Western Newfoundland,
Paul Martin Brown
Big Darby Creek, Ohio, Back Home Again,
Ann Zwinger (Annual Dinner speaker)
Gardening for Pollinators, Leanne Heisler
Wingstem, Gordon Mitchell
Natural Mosquito Repellents, Bob Krueger
Tal Tell Trees, Dr. Neil Pederson and Dr. Amy Hessl
Invasive Plant: Nodding Thistle
Flora of Northeaster Ohio’s Beaches, Dunes, Swales and
other Palustrine Habitats
, Tom Sampliner
Interesting factoid: Garden Tomato
North Kingsville Sand Barrens
Folklore: They Are Not Weeds!!!, Glenna W. Sheaffer
Book Review by Tom Small
The Forgotten Pollinators,
Stephen L. Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan,
Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)
Articles
Letter from the President, Kathy Hanratty
Pollination Biology of Aplectrum hyemale,
Putty-root or Adam and Eve orchid
, Charles L. Argue
Invasive Plant: Glossy Buckthorn and Common Buckthorn
Website: Wild Ones. Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
Gott Fen State Nature Preserve, Society’s Stewardship Days
in 2013: June 8 and October 13
The Genus Liatris and its Status in Ohio, K. Roger Troutman
Interesting factoid: Franklin Tree, Franklinia alatamaha
Folklore:
Fungi: a Source of Natural Bioluminescence
, Tom Sampliner
The Last Flower of the Year, Lucy Larcom
Book Review by Glenn Dreyer
The Brother Gardeners:
Botany, Empire and the Birth of Obsession
, Andrea Wulf
Articles
Gott Fen Stewardship Day Summary, Judy Barnhart
The NPSONEO Awards, Judy Semroc, Kathy Hanratty
Folklore: Holiday Greenery, Mistletoe,
Phoradendron leucarpum
, Kathy Schlosser
Eastern Larch Beetles are Threat to Tamarack Forests,
Fraser R. McKee
Interesting Factoid: Use of Goats in Vegetation Management
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica. Hepatica acutiloba, Gene Bush
Invasive Plant: Oriental Bittersweet
Website: Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Area
Acorns, Gordon Mitchell
Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve
Taxonomy Notes, Why Tree Names are ‘Girls’,
Shirley Mah Kooyman
Our Generous Donors
Book Reviews by Jane Hill
The Sibley Guide to Trees, David Sibley
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees,
Bruce Kershner, Craig Tufts, Daniel Mathews and Gil Nelson
Articles
What’s Up With The Butternut, Alice Waldhauer
Making Locally Adapted Butternut Available to Landowners,
USDA Forest Service, Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources and
Purdue University
Bloodroot Reproduction Plan:
Hurry Up and Wait, and Then Hedge Your Bets
, John Hayden
Hach-Otis State Nature Preserve
Website: Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide to Trees
Flowering Dogwood, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: Japanese Stiltgrass
Kidney-Leaved Buttercup, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Common Blue Violet, Marilyn Dufour
Book Review
American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
Articles
Ecophysiology of Forest Wildflowers, Stephen G. Saupe
The Ferns of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Lewis S. Hopkins
Folklore: Gardening with Native Plants, Spotted Jewelweed, Bob Edelen
Invasive Plant: Wavyleaf Basketgrass, Opismenus hirtellus spp. undulatifolius
Website: What you can do to avoid spreading Wavyleaf basketgrass
Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve
Honey Bees and Native Plants, Chris Murrow
Interesting Factoid: Pawpaw, Asimina triloba
Book Review by Christa Partain
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide, Peter Del Tredici
Articles
Geauga Park District Board Proposes Troubling Changes, Kathy Hanratty
Wetland Indicator Status Ratings: What Do They Mean and Why
Do We Care, Joseph M. McMullen
Website: Bring Back the Monarchs
Distinguishing between Grasses, Sedges and Rushes,
Adapted from the Royal BC Museum of British Columbia
Lake Katherine State Nature Preserve
And Impact on Tick Populations, – Jeffrey S. Ward, Scott C. Williams,
and Thomas E. Worthley
Folklore: Gardening with Native Plants: Sassafras, Sassafras albidum,
Bob Edelen
Hometown Habitat Video
Hike at Gott Fen State Nature Preserve, Judy Barnhart
Interesting Factoid: Rubber from Goldenrod – Almost Famous, Gordon Mitchell
Book Review by Joyce Burian
Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide, Protecting
North America’s Bees and Butterflies
Articles
The Gentian Award for 2014 given to Fred Losi
Novel Ecosystems, Invasion and the Forgotten Food Web, Marilyn J. Jordan
Website: Native Cultivars—Good, Bad and Ugly
Invasive Plant: China Expedition 2013: A Tale of Typhoon-Tossed Kudzu,
Ashley N. Egan
Folklore: Natural History of Maple Syrup, Stephen G. Saupe
Robert A. Whipple State Nature Preserve
Winter Greens, Edward MacArthur
Interesting Factoid: How Did Ohio Become Associated With A Nut-Bearing
Tree?
Book Review by Nancy Hill
The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers
and Plants
, Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz
Note
On 1 October 2025, a copy of the originally published December 2014
journal was made and contains markups on page 1. This markup copy
available under the tab labeled 'corrections -- page 1' is not a published
edition
. It is intended to provide clarity and reflect the actual event
and should be used for reference purposes only. The originally published
December 2014 journal available under the tab labeled 'original' is retained
for accurate historical record of the society's publications.
Articles
The Gentian Award for 2014 given to Fred Losi (corrections)
Novel Ecosystems, Invasion and the Forgotten Food Web, Marilyn J. Jordan
Website: Native Cultivars—Good, Bad and Ugly
Invasive Plant: China Expedition 2013: A Tale of Typhoon-Tossed Kudzu,
Ashley N. Egan
Folklore: Natural History of Maple Syrup, Stephen G. Saupe
Robert A. Whipple State Nature Preserve
Winter Greens, Edward MacArthur
Interesting Factoid: How Did Ohio Become Associated With A Nut-Bearing
Tree?
Book Review by Nancy Hill
The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers
and Plants
, Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz
Articles
The Gentian Award for 2014 given to Fred Losi
BioCellar Rain Garden, Inspired by Native Plant Society
of Northeast Ohio Field Trips
, Jean Loria & Pebbles Bush
Miner’s Lettuce, Claytonia perfoliata, Hank Shaw
Folklore: Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum, Denny Garvin
Invasive Plant: Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum nutans & O. umbellatum
Triangle Lake Bog
Two Proposed State-Threatened Plant Species in Minnesota, Scott Milburn
Interesting Factoid: Passion Flower, Passiflora incarnate, Mythological
and Symbolic Meaning
Website: iNaturalist
2014 Donations to the Society
Book Review
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity
in the Home Garden
, Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy
Articles
Facing the Peril to Native Landscapes, Appreciating Both
the Activist and Botanist Within Us/span>, Latham Davis
Website: “T-Bee”, Edyta Ziekinska
Invasive Plant: Porcelain-berry, Ampelopsis brevipendunculata, Grape Family
Our Native Bamboo, Arundinaria gigantea, Brad Salmon
The Erosion of Collections-Based Science: Alarming Trend or Coincidence?,
Vicki A. Funk
A Comparison Between Solomon’s Plume and Solomom’s Seal, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Thistle Tales, Tim Snyder
Collier (Howard) State Nature Preserve
Interesting Factoid: Bison Play a Key Role in Grassland Ecosystem Health,
Diane Christensen
Book Review
The Wild Here and Now, Susan Charkes and illustrated by Mary Priestley
Articles
In Memory; Ann Ellen Kroening Malmquist
The Potential Role of Epigenetics in the Origin of Regional Ecotypes,
Harold W. Gardner
Mosses: Under-appreciated and Under Threat, Stephanie Stuber
Spider Lily, A late Summer Fascination/span>, Gene Bush
Invasive Plant: Crown Vetch, Coronilla varia L.
Folklore: Common Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. and
Giant Ragweed, Ambrosia trifida L.
, Gordon Mitchell
The Case of the Uncommon Common Milkweed, Patricia Happel Cornwell
Swine Creek Reservation Geauga Park District
Website: Native vs. Non-Native Phragmites
Interesting Factoid: Gentians, Diane Christensen
Top Ten Native Hummingbird Plants
Book Review by Christa Partain
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast,
Peter Del Tredici with Forward by Steward T. A. Pickett
Articles
In Memory; Ann Kroening Malmquist
The Gentian Award for 2015; Ann Malmquist, Founder
2015 Native Plant Society of Northeastern Ohio Annual Grant
Hybrids, Cultivars and Ecovars, Reprinted from Marilandica
Going Native, Peggy Spaeth
Invasive Plant: Euonymus fortunei (Turcs.) Hand.-Mazz.
Staff-tree family (Celastraceae)
Website: What is NAPCC?
Frohring Farm Changing to Prairie, Joan Demirjian
Folklore: Shadbush, Amelanchier arborea, Bob Edelen
What’s the Story on Understory?, Patricia Happel Cornwell
Seed Share, Dorothy Carney, CMNH
Interesting Factoid: Doctrine of Signatures, Diane Christensen
Book Review
Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape
1st Edition
, Tom Wessels
Articles
ODNR is helping to Restore Chestnut Trees to Ohio Landscapes
Ancient Algal “Tree Rings” Show Dramatic Decline in Arctic and
Sub-Arctic Sea Ice
, Adapted from Smithsonianscience.org
Frederick Pursh and the Discovery of Hart’s Tongue Fern,
Joseph M. McMullen
Native Plant Society Field Trip, Holden Arboretum Canopy Walk
and Emergent Tower
Do Plants Dance, Prance, and Wear Pants?, Norm Trigoboff
Invasive Plant: European Black Alder, Alnus glutinosa
Folklore: A Stinky Spring Wildflower, Emliss Ricks
Beechdrops, Mark Howes
Interesting Factoid: The Quintessential Spring Wildflower,
Diane Christensen
Website: Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District
and National Wildlife Federation Backyard Habitat Stewards
Book Review by Bob Krueger, Ph.D.
Founding Gardeners, Andrea Wulf
Articles
High Hopes for Fungi Sent to Space Station, Deborah Netburn
Sex in the Garden: It’s Wilder Than You Think,
William Cullina and Greg Lowenberg
Folklore: Ohio’s Native Wild Onions, Guy Denny
Types of Ohio Wetlands Part I, Ray Stewart
Types of Ohio Wetlands Part II Wet Meadows, Fens, and Bogs,
Ray Stewart and Mick Micacchion
Winous Point Marsh Conservancy, Ray Stewart
Invasive Plant: Bird’s-Foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus L.
Beautiful Plants for Rain Gardens and Damp Spots/span>, Lori Athey
Website: The Waggle Dance
Interesting Factoid: “Leaves of Three, Leave Them Be”, Diane Christensen
Humans Caused the Spread of Virus Harmful to Bees
Book Review
The Forest Unseen, David George Haskell
Articles
Native Plant Society Field Trip
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Herbarium
, Judy Barnhart
What is “Managed Relocation” and Will It Have a Place
in our Conservation Toolbox?
, Jesse Bellemare
Folklore: New England Aster, Aster novae-angliae, Marilyn DuFour
Invasive Plant: Invasive Plant Definitions
Chapin Forest Reservation, Lake Metroparks
New Leaf Disease is Threatening American Beeches, Jane McCullam
Wildflower in Focus: Virginia Creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia
(Linneaeus) Planchon, 1887 Family Vitaceae
, Kirsten Johnson
Interesting Factoid: Black Walnut: The Roots of Evil, Diane Christensen
Website: The Status List for Rare Native Ohio Plants
Book Review
Back to Eden: Landscaping with Native Plants, Dr. Frank W. Porter
Articles
Inviting Wildlife Into Your Garden, Claire Hagen Dole
A Brief Introduction to Bryophytes, William McAvoy
Woman in Field Biology, Margaret D. Lowman
Folklore: Winterberry Holly, Ilex Verticillata, Bob Edelen
Trees Know When Deer Are Eating Them-And How To Fight Back,
Sarah Kaplan
Website: National Wetland Plant List – What Is It
and What Is It Used For?
, Steve Eggers
Invasive Plant: White Pine Blister Rust & Ribes, Akiva Silver
Daughmer Prairie Savannah State Nature Preserve
Interesting Factoid: Using Plants to Counter Antibiotics Crisis?,
Diane Christensen
Book Review by Jane McCullam
Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology,
Margaret D. Lowman
Articles
Website: Discover the Forest
Disjunct Medicine: A History of the (Two) Mayapple, Sasha M. White
Getting to Know the Pussytoes, Genus Antennaria, Asteraceae, Arieh Tal
The Life of a Forest, Matthew Knittel
Invasive Plant: Dame’s Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
Folklore: Virginia Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica, Stephen Johnson
Sawmill Wetlands at Risk, ONAPA
Interesting Factoid: Seed Bombing Native Plants, Diane Christensen
Book Review by Amy Perry
Life in the Soil, A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners, James B. Nardi
Articles
Website: Xerces Society
Ferns in the Garden, William Cullina
Gap Dynamics in the Moist Forests of Eastern North America, Paul E. Knoop, Jr.
The Lazy Thrill of My Shade Garden, Paul Sakren
Folklore: The Wild Columbine, Gordon Mitchell
Buzz Kill: Bumblebee Listed As Endangered For the First Time, Doyle Rice
Scioto River Flyway Corridor, Appalachia Ohio Alliance
Invasive Plant: Leafy Spurge, Euphorbia esula L.
Interesting Factoid: How Sunflowers Follow the Sun’s Path:
A Circadian Clock Revealed
, Diane Christensen
Articles
Website: New Study Strengthens the Need to Conserve and Plant Trees
Forest Health Alert, Beech Leaf Disease, John Pogacnik and Tom Macy
The Eastern Wahoo of the Dugway Brook Watershed , Jean Loria
Folklore: Bittersweet Nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, Denny Garvin
Encrusted saxifrage, Saxifraga paniculata, Grant Dobson
Harvesting Seeds, Cherry Dodd
Collier (Howard) State Nature, ODNR
Indian Pipes, Monotropa uniflora, Stephen Johnson and Mary Stark
Wild Cucumber, Echinocystis lobata, Lorraine Haufman
Invasive Plant: Ohio Invasive Plants Council, Worst Invasive
Plant Species in Ohio’s Natural Areas, ODNR
Interesting Factoid: Plant Blindness, Diane Christensen
Book Review by Judy Barnhart
Goldenrods of Northeast Ohio, A Field Guide
Articles
Recalcitrant Nuts, Diane Christensen
Christmas Rocks State Nature Preserve,
Charles R. Goslin Nature Sanctuary
, Dick Moseley
Endless Symbioses Most Intricate, W. John Hayden
Folklore: Christmas Fern, Polystichum acrostichoides [Michx] Schott,
Gordon Mitchell
New Trillium Specie Discovered in Eastern Tennessee, Meredith Warfield
Website: United Plant Savers
The Trees Beneath Your Feet – A Tale of Graft and Corruption,
Kenneth Armson
Wintergreens and Reds, Robert Dirig
Invasive Plant: Spread by Local Trade, Bugs Butcher Forests,
Michael Casey and Patrick Whittle
Botanic Names: A Hairy Subject, Margaret Chatham
Interesting Factoid: The New Cash Crop, Crocus sativus, Diane Christensen
Book Review
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees: Gardening Alternatives
To Nonnative Species
, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz
Articles
Website: Ohio Phenology Calendar, Ohio State University
Native Ground Covers: Low-Growing Herbaceous Plants for Sun
and Shade Gardens
, Claire Sawyers
Springville Marsh State Nature Preserve Seneca County
Surprises in a Native Plant Garden, Deborah Chute
Some Plants Grow Bigger—and Meaner—When Clipped, Diana Yates
Folklore: Mayapple Lore, Val Ross
Invasive Plant: Japanese Barberry, Berberis thunbergii DC
Questioning Peat Moss, The Environmental Costs of Using Peat Moss,
Ken Druse
Interesting Factoid: Flowers Use “Blue Halo” to Attract Bees,
Diane Christensen
Book Review
Rural Hours, Susan Fenimore Cooper
Articles
Website: Native Cultivars vs. Native Plants Video
38 Species of Invasive Plants Now Illegal to Sell in Ohio, Marion Renault
Why Bees and Wasps Matter, Ohio Division of Wildlife
Pollinators and Predators, Peter Lesica
Ecological Design, Native Plants, and Fine Garden Design, Craig Limpach
Upside-down Anthers of Clethra Stand Out, W. John Hayden
The Nature Conservancy Buys Snow Lake
Downy False Foxglove, Aureolaria virginica, Diana Yates
Invasive Plant: Tree of Heaven, Alianthus altissima, Ellen Jacquart
Folklore: James Mooney & Cherokee Plant Lore, George Ellison
Interesting Factoid: Allelopathic Plants: Mother Nature’s Own Weed Killers,
Diane Christensen
Book Review by John Barber
Native Plants for New England Gardens, Mark Richardson and Dan Jaffe
Articles
Website: Can the Study of Botany and Mycorrhizae Lead to Fewer
Occurrences of Lyme Disease?
Hunting for the Ancient lost farms of North America, Annalee Newitz
Pawpaw, Asimina triloba Annonaceae, Robert L. Tener
Invasive Plant: White & Yellow Sweet-Clovers, Melilotus alba & M. officinalis
Homegrown Shitake, Scott D. Appell
Color Comes Before the Fal: How Plants Prepare for Winter, Patsy Cotterill
Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, ONAPA NEWS
A Rare Find: Sourwood, Oxydendrum arboretum (L.) DC, Marion T. Jackson
Folklore: Goldenrod, Solidago spp., Denny Garvin
Interesting Factoid: Using the Airbnb Model to Protect the Environment,
Diane Christensen
Book Review
Native Plants, Native Healing Traditional Muskogee Way, Tis Mal Crow
Articles
Walking Fern, Asplenium rhizophyllum, Camptososus rgizophullus, Nelson Maher
Snow Trillium, Trillium nivale, Stephen Johnson & Mary Stark
The Silence of the Bugs, Curt Stager
Folklore: Jack-in-the-pulpit, a Resourceful Species, Guy Denny
Morgan Swamp, Bob Downing
Website: Plants are Cool Too!
Rappelling Scientists Find Rare Species Hiding for 100+ years
Through the Woods I Went, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Invasive Plant: Canada Thistle, Cirsium arvense (L.) Scopoli
Eastern Mistletoe, Anonymous
Interesting Factoid: You Know What Red Food Dye Is Made Of, Right?,
Diane Christensen
Book Review by Catherine Hollis
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
Articles
Wild Ones’ Philosophy, Maryann Whitman
Website: The Trout Lily Project – In Defense of Plants
Getting to Know the Pussytoes, Genus Antennaria, Asterceeae, Arieh Tal
Butterfly, Dogwood Linked in Circle of Life, W. John Hayden
The Great Black Swamp, Diane Christensen
Distinguishing Black Cohosh from Look-Alikes, Karen Johnson,
Laura Price, and Sunshine Brosi
Another Plant to Thrill: Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris, Mark Dilley
Invasive Plants: Japanese Honeysuckle & Asian Bittersweet,
Lonicera japonica, Celastrus orbiculatus
Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, Guy Denny
Folklore: Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadansis, Marilyn Dufour
Interesting Factoid: Prairie STRIPS, Marilyn Dufour
Spring Pools Poem, Robert Frost
Book Review by Nancy Sorrels
Milkweed Matters, Lisa Connors, Betty Gatewood, illustrator
Articles
Website: Light Footsteps Farm, Chardon, Ohio
How To Fight Plants with Plants, Nancy Lawson
Recreation of a Van Gogh Painting Using Over an Acre of Native Plants
Insect Diversity, Adam Thomas
Invasive Insect: Spotted Lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula
An Alternative Urban Green Carpet, Maria Ignatieva & Marcus Hedblom
Folklore: Sprites in our Wetland, Ray Stewart
Why This Invasive Plant Has A Shot At Some Redemption, Barbara Moran
Walking in Henrietta Miller’s Steps at The Miller State Nature Preserve,
Diane Christensen
Interesting Factoid: Floral Fidelity, Diane Christensen
Book Review by MaryLaura Lamomt
Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide, Heather Holm
Articles
Will Global Climate Change Affect Fall Foliage Colors?, Howie Neufeld
Who Let the Plants Out? When Rare Species Show Up in Strange Places,
Jane Roy Brown
Cardinal Flower, Lobelia Cardinalis, Bob Edelen
Wildflowers of the Upper Midwest, The Watercolor Collection of Lydia E. Curtis,
Andrew C. Hayes
Folklore: Gentians, George Ellison
Website: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s 10,000-Acre
Preservation Landmark
What is the Creepiest Plant or Fungus?, Stephen G. Saupe
Invasive Plant: More Invasive Wetland Plants, Ray Stewart
State Nature Preserve: Governor DeWine Dedicates 118-Acre Lakeside
Daisy Acquisition
Striped Maple, Acer pensylvanicum, Kathy Schlosser
Interesting Factoid: Wood Wide Web, Diane Christensen
’Shroom, Howard Eskin
Book Review by Tom Phillips
Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians,
Karl B. Knight, Joseph R. Rohrer, Kirsten McKnight, and Warren Perdrizet
Articles
Turning Maple Syrup Forests Into Bird-Friendly Habitat,
Alison Haigh
Folklore:
The “Snap, Crackle and Pop” of the Woodlands Witch-hazel,
Hamamelis virginiana
, Guy Denny
Witch’s Broom
Why Insects Need Plants and Plants Need Insects
Three Biologists Explain, Jane Roy Bro
Invasive Plant: Invasion of the Exotic Earthworms
Website: A Database of Plant Ecology, bplant.org
We Need a Cure for Plant Blindness, Robbie Blackhall-Miles
State Nature Preserve: Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve
Interesting Factoid: Ecological Grief, Diane Christensen
Book Review by JoAnna Klein
The Lorax, Dr. Suess