Andrew Hipp
@andrewlhipp
Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's. 2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
The Book Stop (outstanding!) and morning at Starr Pass. #botany2026 day 1.
Moose, Miami University Hefner Museum of Natural History, after-hours visit (by me; the moose is a permanent resident), November 2025.
Heading to Botany 2026? Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social in a special lecture by Diné botanist Dr. Arnold Clifford as he presents the story of the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium (CMH), the Navajo Nation's largest herbarium. Monday, August 3, 7:00-9:00 PM details at: mailchi.mp/f7208188714a...
Massive, beautiful sugar / black maples felled by Monday's storms. Maple Grove Forest Preserve, Downers Grove.
The phrase "'time goes by'... is profoundly misleading. It implies that time rushes past like the wind, leaving no trace. It would be truer to say that time accretes. It gnarls, and then it gnarls around its gnarls, endlessly." @robertmoor.com's In Trees keeps giving w/ each close read. A delight.
woodland sunflowers coming into bloom this week. @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods.
My records for that one all begin mid-August, so close! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Broad-leaved wild leek (Allium tricoccum) in flower today, hot lunchtime walk through Maple Grove.
Looking for collections experience? Love plants? Living in the Chicago region? If YES! then be an @mortonarboretum.bsky.social short-term research technician position in the Herbarium and Forest Ecology Lab's wood collection. Msg with questions, apply today: careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...
... the crack of those round shells Like a hardwood mallet hammering a wedge Into the moment, splitting it ever open Up ahead, letting it travel with us... ... whatever was to happen next Anitipated as half-consciously As the smack of the next mailed walnut On the roof... -- Seamus Heaney
Starting the week with one of my favorite slime molds, just out in Maple Grove: Arcyria cinerea.
Last night in Lyman Woods, a few hours before the thunderstorms: wood mint, poke milkweed, heal all, giraffe spots.
Red raspberry slime mold, a little dilapidated. This morning at Warren Woods Ecological Field Station, Berrien Co. Michigan.
Dig vomit slime mold that looks deliciously donutlike. This morning in Burlington, Vermont.
Happy solstice from Vermontville, NY. Turn up the volume for pileated woodpecker drumming in the distance, agitated squirrel in the foreground.
Polytrichum (haircap moss) with outstanding sporophytes. Saranac Lake.
First day in the Adirondacks: Wadhams NY, across the road from the library, which looks out over a waterfall. wadhamsfreelibrary.org
narrow-leaved wild leek (Allium burdickii) about to flower, Maple Grove Saturday morning.
Toad songs in a suburban slough. Neighborhood south of Lyman Woods this evening.
30 seconds of fireflies flickering in the understory, Lyman Woods last night. Turn the volume up for a wood pewee.
The Codex Azcatitlan, with Malintzin (La Malinche) at the far right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mali... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_A... houstonsymphony.org/gabriela-len...
If you're in Chicago and have the time tonight, try to get down to the Grant Park Music Festival. I went for Brahms Symphony #4, but I was blown away by Gabriela Lena Frank's (2017) Conquest Requiem. And there were plenty of seats in the free section. www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/digital-prog...
Happy phylogenetic networks Friday! This one by my friend and colleague Gabe Ribicoff.