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Rock breaking

April 21, 2020 - For the past month, I've had my eye on a harbinger plant called the Virginia Rockbreaker that hugs a neighborhood rock f...
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Boulder work

April 22, 2019 - The Virginia Rockbreaker gets its common name from what appears to be an odd way of crafting a habitat: look fast at the...
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Survivor

January 13, 2019 - The Virginia Rockbreaker, a not quite accurate common name—it likes to grow on moss-covered rocks, but I've never seen t...
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Not quite breaking rocks

April 22, 2018 - One of the most reliable signs that we've finally turned a corner towards real spring... not just calendar spring... is...
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Upstart

January 22, 2018 - Most of last year's perennial wildflowers have gone to ground and are protecting themselves from winter cold in subterra...
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Not quite a true name

April 12, 2016 - The Virginia Rockbreaker, an extra hardy wildflower that grows with the local mosses and lichens on a roadside rock face...
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Once and future rockbreaker

November 30, 2015 - There are a number of what I call "signature plants"—species that do something so significant at a certain time of year...
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