Tag: miner’s candle

• Mathematical Patterns in Plants

  One of the things that I really enjoy about nature is that it produces proofs that it obeys natural laws in the most unusual — and beautiful — ways. This spring and early summer I ran across three examples of math in plants. Scorpianweed, like most plants in the hydrophyllaceae family, has a flower stalk…

  Amy Law

  June 25, 2014

  Colorado Mileposts

  borage, butterfly, Colorado, fibonacci sequence, mathematics, miner’s candle, natural history, nature, plants, scorpionweed, sunflowers