botanist from the subtropic highlands of florida, now based in missouri.

i am most interested and experienced in subtropical & tropical taxa, but temperate taxa are cool too (especially those in families which i am familiar with from the tropics — rubiaceae, smilacaceae, euphorbiaceae, aristolochiaceae, ericaceae, etc~)

big appreciate those plants with epiphytic, spiney, scrambly, scrubby, or sandy inclinations, or any combination thereof

I'm also an artist who loves to illustrate the characters of the natural world~~~

Msc in plant and fungal taxonomy, diversity, and conservation from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, but most of what i know is from teaching myself in the field <3

art: https://www.instagram.com/paint_broth