Botany Photo of the Day Liatris punctata

Botany Photo of the Day is a weblog run by researchers, staff, and students associated with UBC Botanical Garden. It features plants from around the world. See The Photographs for details on how to submit your images!

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Another school year is starting soon, requiring the annual recitations of “almost always” and “most of the time” with respect to explaining plants. Most of the time, members of the Asteraceae or sunflower family have a composite inflorescence–a set of flowers much reduced in size are densely clustered together on a single receptacle, and give […]

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