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    The Sensitive Not Fern
    • Jul 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Sensitive Not Fern

    By Sean During the summer of 2014, I went on a school trip to Costa Rica, a tropical paradise with an extremely diverse assortment of...
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    Two Types of Plants
    • Nov 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Two Types of Plants

    by Matt Drescher There are two types of plants. There’s plants, and then there’s Plants. “plants” (small p) are like trees (small t)....
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    The modest mayapple
    • Jun 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    The modest mayapple

    by Alison Singer What first caught my eye was the tightly wound green bundle atop the stem. They looked like closed umbrellas. “What are...
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    An Ode to Desert Giants and Their Journey
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    An Ode to Desert Giants and Their Journey

    by Kathleen Carroll I spent the first 17 years of my life exploring the Sonoran Desert, the land of towering saguaro cacti and...
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    The Juncus People
    • Mar 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Juncus People

    by Lucy Zipf Black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) is the dominant plant species in the wide, flat marshes that surround the Pamlico...
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