Hello!

I'm a plant nerd who enjoys travelling to parks across Ohio to find cool native plants. I believe planting native plants is one of the best ways that all of us can work together as a community to give a helping hand to our struggling wildlife and preserve biodiversity. I know from personal experience that rebuilding habitat in your yard and watching the life return is very fulfilling and exciting.

Indoors, I enjoy cultivating and researching various tropical plants, succulents, and other xerophytes (it gets me through the winter when all the native plants are asleep). Someday I hope to travel around the world to see some of these amazing plants in the wild.

I've also become more interested in the huge diversity of environments and plants found in the United States, and I especially love all of our conifers. Someday I hope to travel to as many of the ecoregions of the US as I can, especially west of the Rockies and the South.

Profile picture is Cirsium muticum (Swamp Thistle) observed in Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve.

I can communicate in English or Spanish, but English is my first language.
Puedo comunicar en inglés o español, pero inglés es mi primer idioma.

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