Last Minute Gifts for the Nature Lovers in Your Life

If you're still looking for that perfect gift for the holiday, please stop by the University of Iowa Press annual Holiday Sale!

Here are a few of the nature titles we have on sale:

 

Plant of the Week: Dec 16

Prairie smoke
Geum triflorum Pursh
other common names
: old man’s whiskers, Johnny smokers
Geum: the ancient Latin name used by Pliny for this group
Triflorum: from Latin, meaning “three-flowered”
Rose family: Rosaceae

Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition 

This Week in Iowa Nature: Dec 14

Saw-whet and long-eared owls roost in coniferous groves; "whitewash" on tree bark may indicate their location, while the ground beneath may yield owl pellets of bones and fur.

Jean C. Prior and James Sandrock, The Iowa Nature Calendar