Amateur botanist, photographer and of late, trying out botanical illustration.

I spend Canadian summers hiking wild places. Favourite habitats are alvars, bogs, fens and tundra.

Taking photos is only an excuse to move slower and look harder.

If you want to use a photo, no problem. Just email me.

Please use my plant identifications as a guide, not as a definitive source. All suggestions and corrections to identification are most welcome.

I want to thank the people who put together these sites. They taught me a lot:

Walter Muma's www.ontariowildflowers.com/

Andy Fyon's www.ontariowildflower.com/ and now his facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Andys-Northern-Ontario-Wildflowers...

The Evergreen plant database nativeplants.evergreen.ca/

The Northern Ontario Database www.northernontarioflora.ca/index.cfm

Illinois Wildflowers www.illinoiswildflowers.info/index.htm

Missouriplants www.missouriplants.com/

Plants of Lanark County www.lanarkflora.com/index.html

Florelaurentienne www.florelaurentienne.com/index.html

I like Douglas Tallamy's book 'Bringing Nature Home'

www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/garden/06garden.html?_r=1