Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 23, 2015
I am writing about Furcraea parmentieri on the request of one of our readers. A synonym for this species is Furcraea bedinghausii, named after Hermann Joseph Bedinghaus. Says our reader, “(Bedinghaus) produced one of the earliest commercially useful cultivars of gladiolus, Gladiolus x gandavensis Van Houtte, and is considered to be a founding member of […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 3, 2013
I was inspired to write about Yucca brevifolia by two of my friends with whom I went rock-climbing a couple weekends ago in Squamish, British Columbia. The pair of them had just returned from Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. They told me of this interesting species the park is named for, which they […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 30, 2012
Triteleia lilacina, commonly known as lilac prettyface, lilac-flowered wild hyacinth, or foothill triteleia, is endemic to “dry rocky outcrops, volcanic hills and mesas” of northern California. These photographs, taken two years ago minus a couple of days, were two of many taken that morning while I enjoyed an excellent wildflower display. The first image is […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 5, 2012
A couple more images from my slowly-developing photograph collection of endemic species for my local bioregion. Though, perhaps it is building more rapidly than I think, as once again I didn’t know I was photographing something fairly localized at the time (I had suspicions).
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 30, 2011
I think I’ve identified today’s taxon, but finding photographs of Walpole’s small camas on the web seems to be near-impossible, so I’ve nothing to compare it with. However, it does key to Walpole’s small camas using Kozloff’s Plants of Western Oregon, Washington and British Columbia as well as the key to Camassia quamash taxa in […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 11, 2009
The forests and grasslands in and around southeastern Vancouver Island harbor dozens of federally-listed rare species, and are of immense aesthetic, cultural, recreational, and economic value to people. The structure, composition, and diversity of these ecosystems in the present day is influenced not only by natural environmental gradients and obvious human disturbances such as suburban […]
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