Well. You can find me on Instagram @FernySoFla. – at South Miami, FL

Beach peanut (Okenia hypogaea). They don’t make them any cuter than this. Super-sticky leaves accrete sand, and roots (even the lil peanuts) run deep. One of my favorites. #dunebuilder #resilience #coastal #beachlife #nyctaginaceae

Seedling Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) in cultivation @FairchildGarden for future #reintroduction in a couple years. @FLStateParks @USFWSSoutheast #tinybutmighty #thelonggame #babypics #cactaceae #Aww

💚🙏🏻🇵🇷 Utuado, PR 🇵🇷 🙏🏻💚 – at South Miami, FL

Just a short walk thru a @MiamiDadeRER @MiamiDadeParks preserve and so many good #mushrooms #itfinallyrained – at Coral Gables, FL

Heading home to Miami after a great week in #PuertoRico w/ awesome #fern #conservation collaborators Lindsey, Jose, Octavio, Coralys & Omar. We monitored wild plants, did pilot plantings w/ rare ferns, retrieved envtl data, collected spores for #exsitu and had a lot of fun!

This stick insect is absolutely 🤯 Lamponius portoricensis, endemic to Puerto Rico #moss #bryophyta #phasmotedea #camouflage #Entomology #fieldfinds #PuertoRico

This bud’s for you @KennethSetzer 🍻 #moss #bryophytes @Budweiser

Blue land crab season in Miami, after all our rains. This one likes resurrection fern @FairchildGarden

Thanks @LouisWPLG & @WPLGLocal10 for featuring our native paradise here in Miami. Let's keep the little bits of nature we have. Great job, @MiamiDadeRER ! local10.com/news/local/2022/…

Scenes from Day1 @CPCplants annual meeting in Denver! @NCBotGarden @FairchildGarden @FairchildChall @MtCubaCenter and many many more, working to save plants from extinction 🌱🌵🌾🌼🌿

Amazing tour of @USDA #NLGRP in Ft Collins today! Giant -18C seed vault, crop seed viability assays, 1948 crop seeds from (still!) ongoing trial, cryogenic storage vats for bud tissue & fern spores (our @FairchildGarden spores are in that front one) @CPCplants #PlantSci

Creative outreach! 😍this beautiful biologist-created video promoting #Peru’s fabulous native #mammals caught on 📷traps in Amazon citizen science monitoring project, (esp 🎶 #cumbia soundtrack 🎶) 🦥 🦔🦡 ▶️🔗youtu.be/jtRNeoVFmo8 #madrededios

When Brazilian jasmine gets ahold of a young tree trunk it’s no joke! Jasminum fluminense, Adenanthera pavonina, Ficus aurea. #tropicalbotany #lianas #vines #ficus #Jasmine #invasiveplants – at South Miami, FL

Some finds this past weekend @CapeFLStatePark:violet sea snails (w/snot bubbles!), goose #barnacles on a bear, cool mix of #algae, pair of northern #snowbirds.

Conservation team @morris_raymond & @muhlenbergia_ assess US-End Key tree cactus in Natl Key Deer Refuge. A few are hanging on. Reasons for hope: ex situ pop @FairchildGarden, reintros by @MyFWC, Village of #Islamorada, @ParksFlorida, Croc Lake NWR, & veg mgt by @IRC1984 🌵🤞🏻 💚

Some treasures on Ellliott Key last week: Jamaica dogwood seedling, white-eyes vireo nest, shelf fungus and yellow nickerbean seeds 😎 @BiscayneNPS #biscayneNP #birds #fungi #nationalparks #fieldwork

That’s me!! What a fantastic piece of natural Florida that has been preserved on this property. It was fern heaven!