I'm Katie 🌾 a botanist | plant ecologist | restoration volunteer from the Prairie State (based in northeast Illinois), passionate about conserving biodiversity, learning about all living things, and rebuilding the connection between people and land. My expertise is the flora of the upper Midwest.

Organizations, writing, and resources to explore:
🌱 Illinois Native Plant Society
🌱 Plants of Concern
🌱 A Botanist's Field Notes
🌱 Illinois Botany group on Facebook

Online resources for learning and identifying the flora:
🌱 Flora of North America
🌱 Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States
🌱 Michigan Flora key
And learning about plant characteristics so you can identify them:
🌱 Vascular Plant Systematics

"Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them. If an animal gives its life to feed me, I am in turn bound to support its life. If I receive a stream’s gift of pure water, then I am responsible for returning a gift in kind...Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart."
⁠—Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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