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    Duckweed or Suckweed? Tiny Plants Turn Out to be Interesting!
    • Jan 23, 2019
    • 4 min

    Duckweed or Suckweed? Tiny Plants Turn Out to be Interesting!

    by Julie Everett Growing up, I had a forsythia bush in my backyard. For some reason, each spring my sister and I would always eat the flow...
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    A Triad Romance
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    A Triad Romance

    by Charles W. Bier I don’t know when I first began to really know trees. As a youngster, I was literally a snake-in-my-pocket sort of ki...
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    Tundra cloud(berrie)s
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    Tundra cloud(berrie)s

    by Briana Jasinski I was first introduced to cloudberries via the name of a man-made structure. This structure was a slowly dilapidating ...
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    The Defender of Plants
    • Oct 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Defender of Plants

    by Matt Candeias The first time I saw lupine blooming in the wild, a blanket of purplish blue flowers swaying softly, covering an Indiana...
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    Fall(ing) for the Prairie
    • Sep 18, 2018
    • 3 min

    Fall(ing) for the Prairie

    by Rebecca Tonietto Hi! 👋 My name is Rebecca Tonietto and I am one of the founding members of Plant Love Stories - which is why it may c...
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    PLS Summer Recap
    • Sep 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    PLS Summer Recap

    Summer is winding down in our half of the world, so we thought we would take some time to reminisce on our summer travels. Plant Love Sto...
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    Low Elevation Alpine Love - LIVE
    • Aug 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    Low Elevation Alpine Love - LIVE

    by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Our second audio story is here! You can hear Caitlin's story using the video link below. A transcript is ...
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    La Brea Plant Love
    • Jul 11, 2018
    • 4 min

    La Brea Plant Love

    by Mikayla Mason My name is Mikayla Mason and I have absolutely no memory of a time in my life when I did not love working with plants. M...
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    Desert Beauty
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    Desert Beauty

    by Thomas Oberbauer ​​Growing up in San Diego County in Southern California, I was exposed to a wide variety of habitats during weekend d...
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    The Plants That Made Me Quit My Job
    • Jun 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Plants That Made Me Quit My Job

    by Emmi Kurosawa I was working at a pharmaceutical company for the longest time, saving lives and making a happy living for myself... Wel...
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    Story of a Rare Plant Picture
    • May 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    Story of a Rare Plant Picture

    by Thomas Oberbauer For a number of years during the mid 1970’s, I searched for rare plants on San Clemente Island in southern California...
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    Plants and Places
    • Apr 11, 2018
    • 4 min

    Plants and Places

    by Andrew Hipp "And so, when his prescribed devotion to boyish beauties has carried our candidate so far that the universal beauty dawns ...
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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 Soun...
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    Low Elevation Alpine Love
    • Feb 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    Low Elevation Alpine Love

    by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie I fell in love with alpine plants at the bottom of the mountain. In college I worked as an environmental e...
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