A Maryland Naturalist

Due to excessive reliance on TV and movies for general information, I once consider orchids to be rare exotic blooms: kidnapped from a tropi...

The Maryland Biodiversity Project (MBP) is a web-based citizen-science effort that documents the occurrence of living things in Maryla...

The Eastern Black Rat Snake ( Pantherophis alleghaniensis ) must be the most common snake in Maryland. They seem to turn up everywhere, e...

We went to Annapolis (our state capital) to visit the William Paca House , a restored 18th century mansion and garden. We'd been in ne...

Here are some more wild flowers. I just can't seem to get enough of them. Perhaps you feel the same? Mayapple ( Podophyllum pe...

It seems that spring has finally arrived in central Maryland. So, I ventured out this past weekend to see what was blooming in the northwest...

  Seeking knowledge and adventure, we traveled to Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. On...