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Looking up through the leaves of Fargesia scabrida

Fargesia scabrida

Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 13, 2020

First scientifically described in 1985, Fargesia scabrida doesn’t seem to have a well-known common name. On the label for this plant growing at UBC Botanical Garden, we’ve opted to tentatively use “orange stem bamboo”.

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Foliage of Nassella laevissima

Nassella laevissima

Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 31, 2019

Sometimes the common name for a species is straightforward and descriptive. Today’s featured species is (in English) golden hair grass.

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Distichlis spicata in the winter

Distichlis spicata and Puccinellia nuttalliana

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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Aechmea fasciata, or silver vase

Aechmea fasciata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 25, 2018

A common ornamental houseplant, Aechmea fasciata is native to the rainforests of Brazil. Also known as urn plant or silver vase plant, it does best under filtered lighting which emulates the rainforest canopy.

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Bouteloua gracilis photographed against a hazy sunset sky

Bouteloua gracilis

Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 30, 2018

Thirteen years ago for a blue grama BPotD entry I wrote: “I wanted more of the spikes set against the sky”. I didn’t remember that wish when I photographed this a few weeks ago, I was just attracted to the curled spike against the smoke-hazed sunset sky (due to the fires in British Columbia).

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Achnatherum hymenoides in hail storm

Achnatherum hymenoides

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 11, 2018

Achnatherum hymenoides has a distribution that ranges from British Columbia to northern Mexico, spanning most of the western part of the North American continent (the USDA PLANTS database also suggests an occurrence in Yukon).

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Inflorescence of Mesanthemum africanum

Mesanthemum africanum

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 18, 2018

This monocotyledonous species is a member of the Eriocaulaceae, which is a family related to the perhaps more familiar grasses and sedges (all belong to the Order Poales). Sometimes called the pipewort family, this group of plants is distinguishable from many other monocots by having inflorescences arranged in heads. Species in the Eriocaulaceae are mostly […]

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