Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 25, 2019
Halophytes, or salt-tolerant plants, are found in a number of environments: seashores, mangrove swamps, salt marshes & swamps, and, as in today’s photographs, saline semi-deserts. Two halophytic grasses, saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) and alkali-grass (Puccinellia nuttalliana), make an appearance in the images. The top image primarily features saltgrass with perhaps some alkali-grass in the upper right […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 30, 2018
Ignored or disdained as a “weed tree” for many years by forest industrialists, Pacific or western yew received an unsustainable amount of interest in the last few decades of the 20th century due to the presence of paclitaxel in its bark.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 10, 2017
Although few wildflower species were blooming, the late August / early September trip to the Siskiyous still held some floral highlights for me. One was encountering and photographing this narrow-range endemic, Epilobium oreganum, or Grants Pass willowherb.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 22, 2017
Erigeron stanselliae is endemic to a small part of Oregon in the western Siskiyou Mountains. Though we (likely) won’t be collecting in the area where this species occurs, this is the general region we are working in for the next couple weeks.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 1, 2017
Collomia grandiflora, or grand collomia, is native to much of western North America. It is an annual species; depending in part on ecological factors, it can range in height from 10cm to 1m (4in. to 40in.) and have one to many flowering head clusters terminating the stem and branches.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 18, 2017
Unlike the species in yesterday’s entry, there is ample documentation about the toxicity and danger of species of Veratrum.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 4, 2015
This late-May set of photographs is from the Leslie Gulch area of eastern Oregon, USA. I had long been interested in visiting the region, as it is both botanically and geologically fascinating. The area is known for its rock formations and volcanic history, but to botanists and plant enthusiasts it is also a special place. […]
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