When I was 19 I was living in my car in the campus parking lot. I lived off the change I found in drive thru's and the common room coffee/broth machine. I had just lost my job so I did not qualify for food stamps. I remember crying in their office when I learned that. Being poor in college SUCKS

#AcademicSky #STEM

Is there any way to get small amounts of Whirl-Pak bags? I do not need 500. In my whole life, I might not need 500. I need 50 max

Here is how I think I now understand it based on the help from Dr. Kellogg. This might still be wrong though #botany

Thanks to the amazing assistance of @jrossibarra.bsky.social & Dr. Toby Kellogg I think I have it figured out! #botany #agronomy #forage #purdue

The project I am working on is making grass identification guides more accessible and in order to do that I need to sort out all the different terms used and their synonyms. Here is a table of just the ligule terms I have found. #Botany can we agree this is a tad complicated and hard to understand?

wait wait wait.... according to this website a "Panicle" and "Compound raceme" are synonyms?? 🤯

Northern Ontario Plant Database. (2024). Inflorescence Types. Northern Ontario Plant Database. www.northernontarioflora.ca/inflorescenc...

To further complicate things Grasses of Washington DC does not call this a Subdigitate spike inflorescence, but instead says it is "Spikelike racemes...digitately or subdigitately arranged"

I don't know what to believe now

But this inflorescence specific paper says there is a secondary inflorescence type called Digitate

Liu, Q., Zhao, N.-X., & Hao, G. (2005). Inflorescence structures and evolution in subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 251(2-4), 183–198. doi.org/10.1007/s006...

However in Grasses of Washington DC that same image would be "Subdigitate Spike Inflorescence"

Ibrahim, K. M., & Peterson, P. M. (2014). Grasses of Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, 99, 1–128. doi.org/10.5479/si.1...

#Botany help needed

A raceme of spikes is shown this way in this book

Simpson, M. G. (2010). 9 - Plant Morphology. In Plant Systematics (pp. 451–513). Elsevier. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...