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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">It’s no secret I’ve become obsessed with botany over the last two months. I’ve been going out since the beginning of spring and taking photos of plants as a way to learn identification. iNaturalist is a great application both for amateurs like me and actual scientists doing research, you take photos and upload them tagging time and place and optionally add an identification.
Lamiaceae, the mint family I bought Botany in a Day by Thomas J Elpel and I’ve been trying to memorize and recognize the plants I see around me. Elpel’s book is based around learning taxonomic families of plants.</p>
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