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Umbellularia californica

Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 8, 2006

Umbellularia californica
Umbellularia californica

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Santa Barbara, California, under a rare snowfall

Santa Barbara, California

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 26, 2006

While taxonomists occasionally argue about the classification of plant species, analogous arguments can be heard from ecologists with regards to the classification of vegetation.

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Inflorescence of Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale

Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale

Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 12, 2006

There have been a few BPotD entries where the plant’s scientific name is apparently duplicated. Does the duplication of an epithet (e.g., var. occidentale) add extra information? Yes! Without knowing anything else about this taxon, it gives two additional pieces of info: 1) this was (almost certainly) the plant first described by a taxonomist as […]

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Erysimum menziesii subsp. yadonii, in habitat

Erysimum menziesii subsp. yadonii

Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 13, 2005

Erysimum menziesii subsp. yadonii, or Yadon’s wallflower, is endangered, so it is likely that this image is the closest that you and I will ever come to seeing the plant–it doesn’t seem to be in cultivation. From what I’ve been able to discern, it is found in only one locale in the world (the coastal […]

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Habitat of Calamagrostis nutkaensis

Calamagrostis nutkaensis

Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 5, 2005

As I was researching Pacific reedgrass, I encountered two issues of Botanical Electronic News on the subject of the European “discoverer” of this plant, Tadeáš Haenke (it was certainly known to the native peoples of the region).

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