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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 3d

Good visit to the Penn State #Herbarium with @botanicalbecks.bsky.social. Checking out Penstemon and dropping some gift specimens. Thanks to Sarah Chamberlain for hosting. #iamabotanist

Two botanists, one sign for PAC Herbarium

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 16d

My really happy, exciting find of the day :) Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar on Spicebush!

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 22d

I just think they're beautiful

Penstemon seeds under my dissecting scope

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Field day with my favorite assistant @writerbynight.bsky.social at Raystown Lake :)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today's new greenhouse flowers (and cones!) !

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 6

Native pollinator appreciation at the garden :)

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 4

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon

New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Personate flowered Penstemon hirsutus (top) and a closely related species with open flowers, P. smallii (bottom).

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Aidan Short @aidanwshort.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fave museum collection greenhouse flowers of the day :)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 3

Stopped by the research greenhouse while tending the museum collection and ugh, I just love these flowers so much

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 2

Never have I been more grateful for 80° and slight humidity than after coming back from 110° and the wind is an oven. Got to work in the garden and greenhouse, the harvests are looking nice!

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Home and recuperating from Botany 2025! Really amazing conference, I met so many incredible people and had such an awesome time (in spite of the UV index). My second Botany was a really amazing experience and I'm so excited to see everyone next year in Tuscon! (And some of you at SICB in Portland 🙂)

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · Jul 30

SICBer - Professor @martinebotany.bsky.social
is developing a web-based program :
"#Plants Are Cool, Too!" — & Chris is on the look-out for plants (and their #researchers) to highlight.
Watch episodes:

www.youtube.com/user/PlantsA...
&

www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/ch...

#botany #phylogenetics

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wheels up! On our way to #Botany2025! Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social is a person you should all meet. #plantpeopleFTW

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Jul 17

Good day at @nybg.bsky.social #herbarium where @botanicalbecks.bsky.social got to see the holotype of her study species, Penstemon canescens… plus a whole lot of other things that *say* they are P. canescens. 😬 It’s a challenging one!

#iamabotanist

Rebecca Beneroff MS ‘26 examining herbarium specimen

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you!!

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 19

Really happy with how mine and @writerbynight.bsky.social's back door is looking :) and our little garden plot at the community garden is getting going too! Some stuff still has to get planted and land in a final destination, but over all, doing good :)

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Jun 17

Penstemons are hard. But @botanicalbecks.bsky.social is on the job!

@trinitydepatie.bsky.social can we keep you on speed dial? 😀

#iamabotanist #plantpeopleftw #conservation

Rebecca Beneroff MS ‘27 examining specimens under a boom scope

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 14

Good day for rain, iykyk 🚫 👑

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our little gardens looking good :)

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 12

Some of my favorite new flowers in the museum greenhouse at Bucknell. I love that I'm able to help as a caretaker of this collection

A head of deep orange flowers on a bromeliad

4, 5-petaled flowers bloom on a white Frangipani tree in a rooftop greenhouse. The inner parts of the petals are deep yellow framed by a creamy yellow.

A floret of hoya carnose flowers. The flowers are white 5 pointed flowers with creamy yellow interior flowes and a red center.

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 11

And of course, had to end the day with ice cream from old mill creamery with @writerbynight.bsky.social when I got back :)

Two ice cream cones take up the majority of frame, one coffee scoop in a waffle cone and one peanut butter scoop in a kid's sugar cone. The hands of two individuals are in the frame which are holding the cones.

Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 11

Had an awesome second field day yesterday looking at Penstemon morphological funkyness on some PA shale barrens around Raystown Lake as part of my Master's thesis! What a cool study system and an awesome environment :)

White femme botanist with light brown hair on a shale barren in a black tshirt with a green neck tie smiling in the botton right corner of the photo showing off the steeply slopped shale barren environment and Penstemon flowers behind them. A lake is in the rear of the scene.

A plant with red fuzzy stem, small red bulb-shaped fruits, thin pointed green leaves, and deep purple tube-shaped flowers with yellow stamens. The plant is being held by a caucasian hand and a newspaper and forest floor sit in the backdrop.

$The shale barren slope covered in scrubby plans and fractured shale which sits in front of lake with steep green ridges and a blue sky with white puffy clouds.$ A hand holds the top part of a plant showing off the flowers. The plant has a reddish green stem and green bulbous fruits. There are many white, tubular flowers with purple striping on the corolla.

A hand holds the top part of a plant showing off the flowers. The plant has a reddish green stem and green bulbous fruits. There are many white, tubular flowers with purple striping on the corolla.

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jun 9

+ some lil ghost and accessories that I made for Zach. Anyway, crochet + documentaries makes for a good brain off night