With no formal training as a writer, my Nebraskaland articles usually require hard work. Recently, however, the storyline and photos for an article on the rare hairy clematis fell into my lap.
Author: Gerry Steinauer
Deceptive Dayflowers
As their name implies, each dayflower blossom is fleeting.
Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers
The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.
Discovering Slime Molds
The slime molds’ DNA suggests they are ancient creatures, one to two billion years old, slithering over the Earth’s barren rock surface at a time when the only other land creatures were bacteria.
Turtle Love
One morning last June, while photographing wildflowers in the Sandhills blowout, I came upon a pair of ornate box turtles.
Prairie Seeds in Winter
Seeds are plants’ life blood: its agent of dispersal to new habitats, as well as the foundation of its next generation.