learn a little geology, botany and zoology and you'll never be bored wherever you go. the Earth will tell you stories
the Earth will tell you stories
This is exactly it
I had this experience the other day while walking my dog. We came across a beautiful flowering tree that smelled so nice, but I didnt know what the name of the tree was
Seek by iNaturalist is a iPhone/ Android app that lets you point your camera at any animal or plant, and it’ll try and identify it down to species. There is some stuff about location tracking, officially to give you a little scavenger hunt for plants and animals near you. A hiking buddy of mine showed it me two years ago, and so far I’d say a lot of times you can only get to genus, but for most plants you can get the common name from the genus.
I did start doing that, and what I found out since then is that unlike animals, plants have multiple names to the point where Wikipedia articles of plants just use their taxonomy name. I've also noticed that people repeatedly conflate clovers with woodsorrels. I think it's because when clovers are drawn, people stylize them, but they stylize them too much so they just look like woodsorrels instead.
your post was from a while ago but thanks for linking this. I've wondered about what I now know are woodsorrels in the garden here because they look like clover but aren't. I'm frankly not a fan of them but at least now I know what they are.
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