You may not think that something with such a highfalutin name as Evening Primrose (Oenothera) could be a City Plant. But don’t be fooled, this herbaceous flower is no shrinking […]
In the year of our Lord twelve hundred and sixty three there was to be a reckoning between the faithful Scots and the Norse pagans the likes of which neither […]
The Black Locust (Ceratonia siliqua) received its somewhat erroneous nomenclature from William Strachey, a member of the Third Supply mission to Jamestown. Before encountering this piece of local flora however, the mission’s ship, Sea Venture, wrecked on the coast of Bermuda in 1609
While most City Plants originate from elsewhere, American Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, has the distinction of being from this particular neck of the woods. As such it was widely used by […]
Before carrots were presented as shadows of their former selves in hermetically sealed bags labeled “baby,” they ran wild, and still do. You probably wouldn’t recognize Daucus Carota as carrot […]
Judging by the news, you may think that Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is staging an all out assault on England with the goal of total and complete occupation. And you’d […]
If you lived in Egypt circa 2500 BC and were incredibly rich, you may have spent many a Day of the Moon’s night sipping on cold pressed Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca […]
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