Native Plants
Smith, R.W.
Robert Smith is not a botanist, but he's been interested in botany for many years, starting as a grade-schooler in West Virginia. If life circumstances had been different, he might have become a botanist.Robert is now retired from the State of Michigan where he was a social worker and administrator, mostly in child welfare. He's been a frequent contributor to the University of Michigan herbarium, and owes much to the staff there, especially Ed Voss, Tony Reznicek and Bev Walter who have mentored his efforts. Robert got his first camera while serving in Viet Nam in 1966, and has been involved in photography periodically ever since. From 1977 to 1982, Robert did regional art fairs. His main photographic interest was natural subjects, particularly wildflowers.
In 1979, Robert stopped near his home in Adrian, Michigan to check out an interesting spot. It turned out to be so interesting he became more involved in botanizing and conservation, and mostly let photography go. That spot became the Nature Conservancy's Ives Road Fen Preserve, a globally endangered habitat.
For Christmas of 2009, Robert's wife gave him a digital Canon camera, and you're now seeing the results. So, Robert has no formal training in botany or photography, but he happily reports, "I sure am having fun in retirement!"
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scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Desmodium nudiflorum | Nakedflower Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium nudiflorum | Nakedflower Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium nudiflorum | Nakedflower Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium strictum | Pine Barren Ticktrefoil Pinebarren Ticktrefoil | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife Swamp-loosestrife Water Willow | |
Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife Swamp-loosestrife Water Willow | |
Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife Swamp-loosestrife Water Willow | |
Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife Swamp-loosestrife Water Willow | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Western Panicgrass Rosette Grass | |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deertongue Deer-tongue | |
Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Dicentra eximia | Turkey Corn Fringed Bleedinghearts Wild Bleedingheart | |
Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
Dicliptera sexangularis | Sixangle Foldwing | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
Dioscorea villosa | Wild Yam | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Doellingeria sericocarpoides | Southern Whitetop | |
Doellingeria umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-topped White Aster | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Draba arabisans | Rock Draba | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Drosera linearis | Slenderleaf Sundew | |
Drosera linearis | Slenderleaf Sundew | |
Draba lonchocarpa | Lancepod Draba | |
Draba nemorosa | Woodland Draba | |
Draba nemorosa | Woodland Draba | |
Dracocephalum parviflorum | American Dragonhead | |
Drosera rotundifolia | Roundleaf Sundew | |
Draba streptocarpa | Twisted-fruit Draba Pretty Draba | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Dysphania ambrosioides | Mexican Tea | |
Dyschoriste humistrata | Swamp Snakeherb Swamp Twinflower Swamp Dyschoriste | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinocystis lobata | Wild Cucumber | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Echinacea paradoxa | Yellow Coneflower Yellow Echinacea | |
Echinocereus pentalophus | Ladyfinger Cactus Alicoche Dog Tail Devil's Fingers | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Echinacea tennesseensis | Tennessee Purple Coneflower | |
Echinacea tennesseensis | Tennessee Purple Coneflower | |
Echinacea tennesseensis | Tennessee Purple Coneflower | |
Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elytraria caroliniensis | Carolina Scalystem | |
Eleocharis compressa | Flatstem Spikerush Flattened Spikerush Flat-stem Spike-rush Flatstemmed Spikesedge | |
Eleocharis compressa | Flatstem Spikerush Flattened Spikerush Flat-stem Spike-rush Flatstemmed Spikesedge | |
Elephantopus elatus | Tall Elephant's-foot | |
Eleocharis elliptica | Elliptic Spikerush | |
Elymus elymoides | Squirreltail Bottlebrush Squirreltail Squirrel-tail | |
Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
Elymus hystrix | Eastern Bottlebrush Grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
Elymus hystrix | Eastern Bottlebrush Grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
Elymus lanceolatus | Thickspike Wheatgrass Streambank Wheatgrass | |
Ellisia nyctelea | Aunt Lucy False Baby Blue-eyes Waterpod | |
Ellisia nyctelea | Aunt Lucy False Baby Blue-eyes Waterpod | |
Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
Elymus riparius | Riverbank Wildrye Riverbank Wild-rye | |
Elymus riparius | Riverbank Wildrye Riverbank Wild-rye | |
Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
Elymus trachycaulus | Slender Wheatgrass | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |