Also look for clumps of tiny twinflowers (Linnaea borealis, Linnaeus’s favorite flower) that usually grow at higher altitudes in subalpine forests. Chipmunks and chickarees chatter from the ...

She doesn't miss much. The twinflower, she explains, is an unassuming little creeper with an illustrious scientific name - "Linnaea borealis," after Carl Linnaeus, the 18th century "father of ...

I had always accepted this as gospel until last August, when, while exploring a wood on Speyside for Linnaea borealis, I came upon a little colony of “lady's tresses.” Since then I have ...