About 70 species exist worldwide, mostly native to northern temperate and alpine regions of North America, Europe and Asia. They display colorful flowers — purple,…
A scientist and a writer
A scientist and a writer
About 70 species exist worldwide, mostly native to northern temperate and alpine regions of North America, Europe and Asia. They display colorful flowers — purple,…
This is a companion piece about the risks from use of herbal remedies. It shows how heeding word of mouth recommendations can hasten your demise.…
What makes the human brain attune itself to cults? Herbal remedies occupy a niche closer to cults than to commonsense. However, in our millenial time…
The name Artemisia clearly derives from that of Artemis, the Greek Goddess of hunting. It is known as a first name: who else comes to…
Autobiography from the 1960s to the 1990s. This book is an enthusiastic account of Pierre Laszlo’s life and pioneering work on catalysis of organic reactions…
This plant, mullein its common name, can be seen throughout a vast portion of the Northern hemisphere including Europe, North Africa and Asia, from the Azores,…
The poppy The extensively cultivated opium-providing poppy, Papaver somniferum, is a close relative. The California poppy, Eschscholtzia californica, is a different although related species. This is…
The ragweed For an invasive plant to invade it is obviously advantageous to associate itself with other invaders. This is what happened, in the not-too-distant past…
A remarkable flower. Not only having it become emblematic of both SwiCerland and the profession of Alpine mountain guides. Because of its quite involved structure. On…
Its frequent habitat is the mountain forest, most often in clearings, up to 1,500 m in elevation (5,000 ft). In France, they live in the Alps,…