This week’s post is plants in our database with botanical names beginning with “N”, “O”, & “Q” (and no, we haven’t remembered our Q’s” and forgotten our “P’s”. There are loads of “P” plants, so they’ll be up next week!).  Enjoy the pictures & see how many of these you know

Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, David Heavner, Richard Holzman, Penny Longhurst, Jim Poling, Randy Richardson, & Joe Standaert. Click on any picture to zoom & enter the slide show. Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name.