Virtual Archives -- 2010 - 2019

Each On the Fringe publication contains well written and informative articles on plants, ecology, plant science, nature, and so much more. As you read through the pages of earlier publications, the evolving history of the Native Plant Society of NEO comes alive as do the contributions over the years of many dedicated men and women who possessed ageless curiosity and shared care and concern for native plants and good stewardship of our natural world. Their individual actions and collective efforts made a difference.
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Original publications of On the Fringe are archived at The Cleveland Musuem of Natural History. These historical documents are currently under the care of the museum's librarian Wendy Wasman and are available for viewing in the museum's Harold T. Clark Library.


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Articles
Wild Collecting Increases the Possibility of Extinction,
Kathy Hanratty
Native Plant Gardening
Invasive Plants – Lesser Naiad and Curly Pondweed
Pretty Partridgeberry, Marielle Anzelone
Wild Geranium: A Crane’s Bill, Gordon Mitchell
Wild Savory, Charles Kinsley
The Nature of Nectar, Niall Dunn
Return of the American Chestnut, Jim Durrell
Devil’s Walking Stick, George Ellison
A Floristic Inventory of Marco Island, Jean Roche and
George Wilder
Orchid Talking Points, Tom Sampliner
A Duneland Carnivore, Barbara Plampin
Book Review by Tom S. Cooperrider
Botanical Essays from Kent
Articles
Sidewalk Garden at the Zoo, Jean Loria
Black Gum: Rabbit Traps and Bee Gums,
George Ellison
Middle Bass, Debbie Woischke
Archives: The Elusive Gentians, Perry Peskin
On a Bog Garden, Don Peters
Round-Leaved Sundew, Gordon Mitchell
A Rare Find: Sourwood Oxydendrum arboreum,
Marion T. Jackson
Parasitic Plants of Central Pennsylvania, Joel McNeal
Redbud – Cercis canadensis, Robert L. Tener
The Pleasing Persimmon, Maggie Whitson
Ohio Native Graces Swedish Postage Stamp
Book Review
Wildflowers in the Field and Forest, Steven Clements and
Carol Gracie
Articles
Show and Tell, Rollie Henkes
All in the Family, Richard J. Hull
Eastern Red Cedar, Robert L. Tener
American Lotus, Gordon Mitchell
Flower Fireworks in Northern Ohio, Tom Sampliner
Natural Meadows: Challengers and Charms, Carry Plunkett
Prairie Smoke, Emony Nicholls
Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve
Botanizing in Greene County, Pennsylvania,
Dr. Mary J. Haywood
Partridge-berry, Ann Mitchell Seemann
Invasive Plants of Ohio - Eurasian Water-Milfoil
New Program Certifies Forage and Mulch Free
of Noxious Weed Seeds
Book Review by Tom Sampliner
Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden,
John M. Randall (Editor), Janet Marinelli (Editor)
Articles
The Mushroom Origins of Santa and Flying Reindeer,
Tom Sampliner
American Ginseng, Eric Burkhart
The Happy Herbivore, Blithsome Borage, Scott D. Appell
Coffetree, Robert Tener
Conservation in Action at Orchard Hills Park, Paige Hosier
Polygonaceae: The Smartweed Family, Landon McKinney
Sassafras albidum, Mitten Tree, Marion T. Jackson, Ph.D.
Indian Pipe, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: The Doctrine of Signatures, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: Japanese Knotweed
Book Review
Invasive Plant Medicine, Timothy Lee Scott
Articles
Wood Poppy: Rare For a Reason, Jane Bowles
Skunk Cabbage, The Year’s First New Wildflower, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Woodland Dental Hygiene, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: May’s the Month To Pull Garlic Mustard
Mad About Moss, Joni Blackburn
Old Woman Creek: A National Estuarine Research Reserve
& State Nature Preserve
, ODNR
Do We Need a Purple Dead Nettle Festival?, Charlie Lapham
Book Review
Go Native! Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers
in the Lower Midwest
, Carolyn Harstad
Articles
A Pear by Any Other Name, Ellen Jacquart
Swamp Milkweed, Melanie Choukas-Bradley
An 18th Century Botanist, Bev Stamp
Downspout Bog Gardens, North American Native Plant Society
Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve, ODNR
White Water Lily, Gordon Mitchell
Folklore: Green Medicine, Guy L. Denny
Invasive Plant: Smooth Brome
Book Review
New Book on Prairie ecology & management, Chris Helzer
Articles
Common Arrowhead, Gordon Mitchell
Invasive Plant: Japanese Chaff Flower, Chris Evans
An 18th Century American Botanist, Beverly Stamp
Fungi: Friends and Foes, Dawes Arboretum
Maumee Bay, Ohio State Park
Book Worth Looking At: Bringing Nature Home
Weed Seed Dispersal by Earthworm, Emilie Regnier
Poem: To the Fringed Gentian, William Cullen Bryant
Sundew, Tom Sampliner
Folklore: Beechdrops, Mark Howes
Articles
Wild Strawberry, Gordon Mitchell
Winter Woods, Tom Snyder
Gross Memorial Woods SNP, ODNR
Key to the Conifirs of the Great Lakes Region,
Tom Sampliner
Pernicious Periwinkle, Ruth Ann Ingraham
An 18th Century American Botanist, Parts III & IVA,
Beverly Stamp
From the Archive: Leopold‘s Lament, Brian Parsons
Book Review by Joy Kiser
Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio
Articles
Preserving Biodiversity: Is it too late?, Jeff Knoop
Common Blue Violet, Marney Bruce
Spring’s Edible Gifts, Debbie Naha
Native Plant Communities of Lake Vermillion State Park,
Tavis Westbrook
Invasive Plants:
Are “Sterile” Cultivars Safe?
, Sheilah Lombardo
An 18th Century American Botanist, Beverly Stamp
Plant Lore: Northern Bush Honeysuckle, Thor Kommedahl
Poem: The Path Not Taken, Lauren Brown
Book Review by Tom Sampliner
Wildflower Wonders:
The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World
, Bob Gibbons
Articles
Archive Article: Vittaria Gametophytes
Discovered in a New Physiographic Province
, Allison W. Cusick
Book Note: America’s Other Audubon, Joy Kiser
Invasive Plant: Fighting Hydrilla in the Cayuga Inlet
Poem: Orchid Hunt, Kenneth Hull
Weird Plants:
Native Plants Can Have a Real Wild Side
, Chet Neufeld
Archive Article: Native American Medicinal Use of Trees
State Park: Rhododendron Cove State Nature Preserve
Articles
Archive Article: Comments from the President,
Ann Malmquist
Archive Article: Woody Plants and
the Drought of ’88 (and 2012)
, Charles Tubesing
Forest Ecology – Great Lakes Worm Watch website
Two Colorful Wetland Plants: The Cardinal Flower and
The Great Blue Lobelia
, Gordon Mitchell
Invasive Plants: Salt Cedar
New Botanical Nomenclature Rules Are Now In Effect,
Shirley Mah Kooyman
Bottle Gentians, Anne S. Bahl
Plant Lore, Speckled Adler, Thor Kommedahl
Book Review by David Keifer
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature
in a Post-Wild World
, Emma Marris
Articles
The Year in Review – 2012, Message from the President,
Judy Barnhart
Statement of the NPSNEO
Upon Awarding Perry Peskin the Gentian Award for 2012
Archive Article: Winter Nature Interpretation,
Emliss Ricks
Ancient Seeds Grown
A Near Perfect Plant: Creeping Wintergreen, Gene Bush
Invasive Plants: ‘Non-Invasive’ Cultivar? Buyer Beware
State Park: Augusta-Anne Olsen State Nature Preserve
Ohio Native Plant Collaborative, Lori Totman
Why are some plant species able to coexist
while others cannot?
, Jean Burns
Folklore: The Wonder Tree: Eastern Hemlock, Robert L. Tener
Archive Article: Ohio Polygonums, Clinton H. Hobbs
Musings on the Society’s Thirtieth Anniversary,
Tom Sampliner
Book Review by Tracey Knierim
Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast, A Natural History,
Carol Gracie
Articles
Letter from president of our Society and from
president of ONAPA about the urgent need to help ONAPA
,
Kathryn Hanratty and Guy Denny
Gott Fen Nature Preserve
Book Highlight: The Search for Lost Habitats,
Chapter 10: Orchidophilia
, Perry Peskin
Folklore: Natural History of Maple Syrup, Stephen G. Saupe
Invasive Plant: Mile-A-Minute Weed, Persicaria perfoliata L.
Interesting Factoid: Jeffersonia diphylla (L.), Twinleaf
Fern in Focus: Royal Fern, Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Articles
Two Weeks and 38 Orchids in Western Newfoundland,
Paul Martin Brown
Big Darby Creek, Ohio, Back Home Again,
Ann Zwinger (Annual Dinner speaker)
Gardening for Pollinators, Leanne Heisler
Wingstem, Gordon Mitchell
Natural Mosquito Repellents, Bob Krueger
Tal Tell Trees, Dr. Neil Pederson and Dr. Amy Hessl
Invasive Plant: Nodding Thistle
Flora of Northeaster Ohio’s Beaches, Dunes, Swales and
other Palustrine Habitats
, Tom Sampliner
Interesting factoid: Garden Tomato
North Kingsville Sand Barrens
Folklore: They Are Not Weeds!!!, Glenna W. Sheaffer
Book Review by Tom Small
The Forgotten Pollinators,
Stephen L. Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan,
Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)
Articles
Letter from the President, Kathy Hanratty
Pollination Biology of Aplectrum hyemale,
Putty-root or Adam and Eve orchid
, Charles L. Argue
Invasive Plant: Glossy Buckthorn and Common Buckthorn
Website: Wild Ones. Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
Gott Fen State Nature Preserve, Society’s Stewardship Days
in 2013: June 8 and October 13
The Genus Liatris and its Status in Ohio, K. Roger Troutman
Interesting factoid: Franklin Tree, Franklinia alatamaha
Folklore:
Fungi: a Source of Natural Bioluminescence
, Tom Sampliner
The Last Flower of the Year, Lucy Larcom
Book Review by Glenn Dreyer
The Brother Gardeners:
Botany, Empire and the Birth of Obsession
, Andrea Wulf
Articles
Gott Fen Stewardship Day Summary, Judy Barnhart
The NPSONEO Awards, Judy Semroc, Kathy Hanratty
Folklore: Holiday Greenery, Mistletoe,
Phoradendron leucarpum
, Kathy Schlosser
Eastern Larch Beetles are Threat to Tamarack Forests,
Fraser R. McKee
Interesting Factoid: Use of Goats in Vegetation Management
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica. Hepatica acutiloba, Gene Bush
Invasive Plant: Oriental Bittersweet
Website: Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Area
Acorns, Gordon Mitchell
Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve
Taxonomy Notes, Why Tree Names are ‘Girls’,
Shirley Mah Kooyman
Our Generous Donors
Book Reviews by Jane Hill
The Sibley Guide to Trees, David Sibley
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees,
Bruce Kershner, Craig Tufts, Daniel Mathews and Gil Nelson
Articles
Turning Maple Syrup Forests Into Bird-Friendly Habitat,
Alison Haigh
Folklore:
The “Snap, Crackle and Pop” of the Woodlands Witch-hazel,
Hamamelis virginiana
, Guy Denny
Witch’s Broom
Why Insects Need Plants and Plants Need Insects
Three Biologists Explain, Jane Roy Bro
Invasive Plant: Invasion of the Exotic Earthworms
Website: A Database of Plant Ecology, bplant.org
We Need a Cure for Plant Blindness, Robbie Blackhall-Miles
State Nature Preserve: Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve
Interesting Factoid: Ecological Grief, Diane Christensen
Book Review by JoAnna Klein
The Lorax, Dr. Suess