MtBotany
@mtbotany.bsky.social
Botanizer. I'm not mad, just irresponsible. Also not a person made of plants or a killer robot pretending to be human, honest.
Wikipedia editor that writes about plants. Posting about plants 92.8% of the time. But I comment about other things.
Wikipedia editor that writes about plants. Posting about plants 92.8% of the time. But I comment about other things.
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MtBotany
@mtbotany.bsky.social
· Oct 17
If you have a request for a plant (that is not a moss or algae) article, reply here or on my Wikipedia talk page. I will make an attempt on any plant species, genus, or family.
#Wikipedia #NativePlants #Botany
#Wikipedia #NativePlants #Botany
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For over 30 years, this striking orange and blue caterpillar's identity was a mystery ... until a few days ago, when a scientist reared the very caterpillar in these photos to adulthood.
📷 gwentomologist on iNaturalist
📍 Peru
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 gwentomologist on iNaturalist
📍 Peru
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
For over 30 years, this striking orange and blue caterpillar's identity was a mystery ... until a few days ago, when a scientist reared the very caterpillar in these photos to adulthood.
📷 gwentomologist on iNaturalist
📍 Peru
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 gwentomologist on iNaturalist
📍 Peru
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
I'm not editing Wikipedia drunk, you're editing drunk.
Besihdes, tawny port is part of a healthy plant based diet.
Though I do have a question. Tawny mensh brown, right? Does thish look brown or ruby to you?
Besihdes, tawny port is part of a healthy plant based diet.
Though I do have a question. Tawny mensh brown, right? Does thish look brown or ruby to you?
January 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I'm not editing Wikipedia drunk, you're editing drunk.
Besihdes, tawny port is part of a healthy plant based diet.
Though I do have a question. Tawny mensh brown, right? Does thish look brown or ruby to you?
Besihdes, tawny port is part of a healthy plant based diet.
Though I do have a question. Tawny mensh brown, right? Does thish look brown or ruby to you?
This photograph released by William Hoyer under creative commons got me started. A day later and the article has actual content.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllan...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllan...
January 11, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This photograph released by William Hoyer under creative commons got me started. A day later and the article has actual content.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllan...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllan...
Okay, has anyone noticed anything out of place that would indicate we're in a tangent universe? Because I'd really like to wake up and find that the last 15 months have been a dream.
January 10, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Okay, has anyone noticed anything out of place that would indicate we're in a tangent universe? Because I'd really like to wake up and find that the last 15 months have been a dream.
I'm almost done with the Colorado penstemons. I created the last article that did not exist and I have four that are "stubs". Articles so short that they're useless. Penstemon humilis, Penstemon linarioides, Penstemon osterhoutii, and Penstemon procerus.
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I'm almost done with the Colorado penstemons. I created the last article that did not exist and I have four that are "stubs". Articles so short that they're useless. Penstemon humilis, Penstemon linarioides, Penstemon osterhoutii, and Penstemon procerus.
Sometimes I'm going through my photos and I have no idea what I was trying to capture. Just, what? Maybe I liked how these plants looked in real life, but the photo is "Meh."
January 10, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Sometimes I'm going through my photos and I have no idea what I was trying to capture. Just, what? Maybe I liked how these plants looked in real life, but the photo is "Meh."
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Eritrichuium argenteum, our Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not, blooming above King Lake #nativeplants
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 7 🌿
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 7 🌿
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Eritrichuium argenteum, our Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not, blooming above King Lake #nativeplants
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 7 🌿
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 7 🌿
I'm ignoring bad vibes by busying myself with my project to write a really good article for each of the 310,129 species of plant.
I estimate I'll be done in about 2,982 years.
I estimate I'll be done in about 2,982 years.
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I'm ignoring bad vibes by busying myself with my project to write a really good article for each of the 310,129 species of plant.
I estimate I'll be done in about 2,982 years.
I estimate I'll be done in about 2,982 years.
I like common yellow monkeyflowers. From back in July above Gothic, Colorado.
January 4, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I like common yellow monkeyflowers. From back in July above Gothic, Colorado.
Well this is a charming book name. "The Rock Gardener's Bedside Book". And it is divided up into Stages instead of chapters.
STAVE I: Of Rock Gardens, Scree, Alpine Lawns and Cattle Troughs
STAVE I: Of Rock Gardens, Scree, Alpine Lawns and Cattle Troughs
January 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Well this is a charming book name. "The Rock Gardener's Bedside Book". And it is divided up into Stages instead of chapters.
STAVE I: Of Rock Gardens, Scree, Alpine Lawns and Cattle Troughs
STAVE I: Of Rock Gardens, Scree, Alpine Lawns and Cattle Troughs
I spent today digging and moving hibernating plants. Because it was fairly warm here. I sacrificed one meadow deathcamas from a clump of eight to photograph internal structure.
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I spent today digging and moving hibernating plants. Because it was fairly warm here. I sacrificed one meadow deathcamas from a clump of eight to photograph internal structure.
"What was your biggest impact on the internet?"
Always hard since my work is collaborative and half invisible. I'm going to say rewriting the article on Yucca. Peach gets more page views, but I'm only responsible for 70.3% instead of 93.5% on Yucca.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
Always hard since my work is collaborative and half invisible. I'm going to say rewriting the article on Yucca. Peach gets more page views, but I'm only responsible for 70.3% instead of 93.5% on Yucca.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
January 1, 2026 at 4:34 AM
"What was your biggest impact on the internet?"
Always hard since my work is collaborative and half invisible. I'm going to say rewriting the article on Yucca. Peach gets more page views, but I'm only responsible for 70.3% instead of 93.5% on Yucca.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
Always hard since my work is collaborative and half invisible. I'm going to say rewriting the article on Yucca. Peach gets more page views, but I'm only responsible for 70.3% instead of 93.5% on Yucca.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
@tkingfisher.com tweeted (before it became the Nazi bar) about a bottle of my sparkling mead she sampled at a science fiction convention in New Mexico. A friend had to tell me because I didn't have a twitter account.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@tkingfisher.com tweeted (before it became the Nazi bar) about a bottle of my sparkling mead she sampled at a science fiction convention in New Mexico. A friend had to tell me because I didn't have a twitter account.
Reposted by MtBotany
Because LLM garbage is on my mind:
Don't buy anything from Selina Wamucii, Botanikks, or the website Botanicalrealm. They generated all their pages about plants using LLM and I'd no more trust them than I'd swallow a pill sold by honest Dr. Snakeoil.
Don't buy anything from Selina Wamucii, Botanikks, or the website Botanicalrealm. They generated all their pages about plants using LLM and I'd no more trust them than I'd swallow a pill sold by honest Dr. Snakeoil.
December 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Because LLM garbage is on my mind:
Don't buy anything from Selina Wamucii, Botanikks, or the website Botanicalrealm. They generated all their pages about plants using LLM and I'd no more trust them than I'd swallow a pill sold by honest Dr. Snakeoil.
Don't buy anything from Selina Wamucii, Botanikks, or the website Botanicalrealm. They generated all their pages about plants using LLM and I'd no more trust them than I'd swallow a pill sold by honest Dr. Snakeoil.
Matt Lavin is another botanist I appreciate. He uploads pictures from his travels all over the world with marvelous detail to iNaturalist. Here is his Creative Commons by Attribution Share Alike photo of Fence Post Tree (Gliricidia sepium) in Puerto Rico in 1991. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Matt Lavin is another botanist I appreciate. He uploads pictures from his travels all over the world with marvelous detail to iNaturalist. Here is his Creative Commons by Attribution Share Alike photo of Fence Post Tree (Gliricidia sepium) in Puerto Rico in 1991. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Like a TV chef I'm working on the article I'll be using as my demonstration piece ahead of time for "Editing Wikipedia for Fun and No Profit" at COSine, currently scheduled for 2−3 PM on Sunday 25 January.
www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/curre...
www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/curre...
Schedule – COSine
www.firstfridayfandom.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Like a TV chef I'm working on the article I'll be using as my demonstration piece ahead of time for "Editing Wikipedia for Fun and No Profit" at COSine, currently scheduled for 2−3 PM on Sunday 25 January.
www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/curre...
www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/curre...
Editing Wikipedia too much, or not enough?
Last night I dreamed that I was all excited to see new photographs uploaded by someone of the plants clinging to life on Ball's Pyramid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27...
Last night I dreamed that I was all excited to see new photographs uploaded by someone of the plants clinging to life on Ball's Pyramid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27...
Ball's Pyramid - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Editing Wikipedia too much, or not enough?
Last night I dreamed that I was all excited to see new photographs uploaded by someone of the plants clinging to life on Ball's Pyramid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27...
Last night I dreamed that I was all excited to see new photographs uploaded by someone of the plants clinging to life on Ball's Pyramid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27...
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And this is exactly why Farnsworth is my favorite. He gets me. When I propose a species of blood sucking plants other scientists are all, "He's mad!" But Farnsworth is the one to shout, "I agree! You haven't gone far enough! They need hallucinogenic stingers, too!" And he was right.
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
And this is exactly why Farnsworth is my favorite. He gets me. When I propose a species of blood sucking plants other scientists are all, "He's mad!" But Farnsworth is the one to shout, "I agree! You haven't gone far enough! They need hallucinogenic stingers, too!" And he was right.
Everything is One Big Christmas Tree by the Magnetic Fields:
🎶
Why sit in your dark and lonely room?
Must your every word be sincere?
Here's a vial of laughing gas perfume
See that people smile when you're near
If they don't like you screw them
Don't leave your fortune to them...
🎶
🎶
Why sit in your dark and lonely room?
Must your every word be sincere?
Here's a vial of laughing gas perfume
See that people smile when you're near
If they don't like you screw them
Don't leave your fortune to them...
🎶
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Everything is One Big Christmas Tree by the Magnetic Fields:
🎶
Why sit in your dark and lonely room?
Must your every word be sincere?
Here's a vial of laughing gas perfume
See that people smile when you're near
If they don't like you screw them
Don't leave your fortune to them...
🎶
🎶
Why sit in your dark and lonely room?
Must your every word be sincere?
Here's a vial of laughing gas perfume
See that people smile when you're near
If they don't like you screw them
Don't leave your fortune to them...
🎶
I have somewhere between zero to negative interest in gaming, but I approve of plants as fantasy monsters.
Still working to get 100 plants for the Botany & Dragons Bestiary! Submit your favorite plant today! #iamabotanist
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I have somewhere between zero to negative interest in gaming, but I approve of plants as fantasy monsters.
I'm in Ilex aquifolium checking facts and formatting citations. Because Holly King. But it is nearly time for luncheon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aq...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aq...
Ilex aquifolium - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm in Ilex aquifolium checking facts and formatting citations. Because Holly King. But it is nearly time for luncheon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aq...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aq...
A small milestone. This week I made it onto the list of top 10,000 Wikipedians by number of edits on Wikipedia. Currently at number 9896 with 12,460 edits.
Since the list is updated daily I'm likely to rise (or fall) based on daily activity levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Since the list is updated daily I'm likely to rise (or fall) based on daily activity levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/5001–10000 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A small milestone. This week I made it onto the list of top 10,000 Wikipedians by number of edits on Wikipedia. Currently at number 9896 with 12,460 edits.
Since the list is updated daily I'm likely to rise (or fall) based on daily activity levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Since the list is updated daily I'm likely to rise (or fall) based on daily activity levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
I continue to work on Wikipedia, but I got distracted from my preferred work on individual species articles by noticing the mismatch between the accepted names in Plants of the World Online for poppy family (Papaveraceae) names and the ones used on Wikipedia.
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I continue to work on Wikipedia, but I got distracted from my preferred work on individual species articles by noticing the mismatch between the accepted names in Plants of the World Online for poppy family (Papaveraceae) names and the ones used on Wikipedia.
In my head the warning templates on Wikipedia are in the voice of ART ( @kevinrfree.bsky.social ) from the Murderbot series. "Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia you may be blocked from editing."
Especially when being put in by one of our good bots like ClueBot NG.
Especially when being put in by one of our good bots like ClueBot NG.
December 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In my head the warning templates on Wikipedia are in the voice of ART ( @kevinrfree.bsky.social ) from the Murderbot series. "Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia you may be blocked from editing."
Especially when being put in by one of our good bots like ClueBot NG.
Especially when being put in by one of our good bots like ClueBot NG.