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January 2012 ---International Rock Gardener--- January 2012
International Rock Gardener Number 25 The Scottish Rock Garden Club January 2012 ---International Rock Gardener--- January 2012 We begin the year with some “perennial favourites”: plants with lasting attraction. The late Harold Esslemont was one of the most experienced growers and exhibitors in the SRGC over a great many years and the following article was adapted from The Rock Garden journal of 1969 to showcase some plants that are as popular today as they were over forty years ago. The last cover of 2011 was of a wintry scene in the Scottish Garden of two of the IRG team so we thought we’d share this January sunset for the start of 2012. In his weekly Bulb Log Diary, now in its tenth year, Ian shares his method of taking such photos. Cover picture: January Sunset, Aberdeen. J. Ian Young ---Mountains in the Garden--- My Twelve Favourite Alpines by the late Harold Esslemont M.B.E. (adapted by M.Y.) It was the final meeting of the season of the local group. A postcard announced that two* members had been invited to show and discuss slides of their twelve favourite alpines. It appeared that I was to be one of the speakers. I forget who told me that his list of twelve favourite alpines ran to at least twenty, but I was soon to learn how right he was. My brief was twelve plants, no more, and a decision, however difficult, had to be made. The compiling of such a list is influenced by so many factors that the result may be expected to vary widely among individuals. -
December 2012 Number 1
Calochortiana December 2012 Number 1 December 2012 Number 1 CONTENTS Proceedings of the Fifth South- western Rare and Endangered Plant Conference Calochortiana, a new publication of the Utah Native Plant Society . 3 The Fifth Southwestern Rare and En- dangered Plant Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2009 . 3 Abstracts of presentations and posters not submitted for the proceedings . 4 Southwestern cienegas: Rare habitats for endangered wetland plants. Robert Sivinski . 17 A new look at ranking plant rarity for conservation purposes, with an em- phasis on the flora of the American Southwest. John R. Spence . 25 The contribution of Cedar Breaks Na- tional Monument to the conservation of vascular plant diversity in Utah. Walter Fertig and Douglas N. Rey- nolds . 35 Studying the seed bank dynamics of rare plants. Susan Meyer . 46 East meets west: Rare desert Alliums in Arizona. John L. Anderson . 56 Calochortus nuttallii (Sego lily), Spatial patterns of endemic plant spe- state flower of Utah. By Kaye cies of the Colorado Plateau. Crystal Thorne. Krause . 63 Continued on page 2 Copyright 2012 Utah Native Plant Society. All Rights Reserved. Utah Native Plant Society Utah Native Plant Society, PO Box 520041, Salt Lake Copyright 2012 Utah Native Plant Society. All Rights City, Utah, 84152-0041. www.unps.org Reserved. Calochortiana is a publication of the Utah Native Plant Society, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organi- Editor: Walter Fertig ([email protected]), zation dedicated to conserving and promoting steward- Editorial Committee: Walter Fertig, Mindy Wheeler, ship of our native plants. Leila Shultz, and Susan Meyer CONTENTS, continued Biogeography of rare plants of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada. -
Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804)
ANTONIO JOSÉ CAVANILLES (1745-1804) Segundo centenario de la muerte de un gran botánico ANTONIO JOSÉ CAVANILLES (1745-1804) Segundo centenario de la muerte de un gran botánico Valencia Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País 2004 1. Dalia (cultivar de Dahlia pinnata Cav.). Según el sistema internacional de clasificación, pertenece al grupo “flor semicactus”. 2. Rosa (Rosa x centifolia L.). 3. Amapola (Papaver rhoeas L.). Variedad de flor doble. 4. Tulipán (variedad de jardín de Tulipa gesneriana L.) 5. Áster de China (Callistephus chinensis L.) = Nees (Aster chinensis L.), variedad de flor doble. 6. Jazmín oloroso (Jasminum odoratissimum L.). 7. Adormidera (Papaver somniferum L.). Variedad de jardín. 8. Crisantemo (Chysanthemum x indicum L.). 9. Clavel (Dianthus caryophyllus L.). 10. Perpetua (Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don = Gnaphalium italicum Roth.). 11. Hortensia (Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) (Ser. = Viburnum macrophyllum Thunb.) 12. Fucsia (Fuchsia fulgens DC.). Identificación y esquema por María José López Terrada. Edita: Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País Valencia, 2004 ISBN: 84-482-3874-5 Depósito legal: V. 4.381 - 2004 Artes Gráficas Soler, S. L. - La Olivereta, 28 - 46018 Valencia ÍNDICE Presentación de Francisco R. Oltra Climent. Director de la Real Socie- dad Económica de Amigos del País de Valencia ........................... 1 La obra de Cavanilles en la “Económica”, de Manuel Portolés i Sanz. Coordinador por la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Valencia de “2004: año de Cavanilles” ...................................... 3 Botànic Cavanilles per sempre, de Francisco Tomás Vert. Rector de la Universitat de València ........................................................ 5 Palabras de Rafael Blasco Castany. Conseller de Territorio y Vivienda de la Generalitat Valenciana ..................................................... -
Checklist of the Washington Baltimore Area
Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Washington - Baltimore Area Part I Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnosperms, and Dicotyledons by Stanwyn G. Shetler and Sylvia Stone Orli Department of Botany National Museum of Natural History 2000 Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0166 ii iii PREFACE The better part of a century has elapsed since A. S. Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley published their succinct manual in 1919 for the identification of the vascular flora in the Washington, DC, area. A comparable new manual has long been needed. As with their work, such a manual should be produced through a collaborative effort of the region’s botanists and other experts. The Annotated Checklist is offered as a first step, in the hope that it will spark and facilitate that effort. In preparing this checklist, Shetler has been responsible for the taxonomy and nomenclature and Orli for the database. We have chosen to distribute the first part in preliminary form, so that it can be used, criticized, and revised while it is current and the second part (Monocotyledons) is still in progress. Additions, corrections, and comments are welcome. We hope that our checklist will stimulate a new wave of fieldwork to check on the current status of the local flora relative to what is reported here. When Part II is finished, the two parts will be combined into a single publication. We also maintain a Web site for the Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area, and the database can be searched there (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/dcflora). -
A Phylogenetic Study of the Tribe Antirrhineae: Genome Duplications and Long-Distance Dispersals from the Old World to the New World 1
RESEARCH ARTICLE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY A phylogenetic study of the tribe Antirrhineae: Genome duplications and long-distance dispersals from the Old World to the New World 1 Ezgi Ogutcen2 and Jana C. Vamosi PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Antirrhineae is a large tribe within Plantaginaceae. Mostly concentrated in the Mediterranean Basin, the tribe members are present both in the Old World and the New World. Current Antirrhineae phylogenies have diff erent views on taxonomic relationships, and they lack homogeneity in terms of geographic distribution and ploidy levels. This study aims to investigate the changes in the chromosome numbers along with dispersal routes as defi nitive characters identifying clades. METHODS: With the use of multiple DNA regions and taxon sampling enriched with de novo sequences, we provide an extensive phylogeny for Antir- rhineae. The reconstructed phylogeny was then used to investigate changes in ploidy levels and dispersal patterns in the tribe using ChromEvol and RASP, respectively. KEY RESULTS: Antirrhineae is a monophyletic group with six highly supported clades. ChromEvol analysis suggests the ancestral haploid chromosome number for the tribe is six, and that the tribe has experienced several duplications and gain events. The Mediterranean Basin was estimated to be the origin for the tribe with four long-distance dispersals from the Old World to the New World, three of which were associated with genome duplications. CONCLUSIONS: On an updated Antirrhineae phylogeny, we showed that the three out of four dispersals from the Old World to the New World were coupled with changes in ploidy levels. The observed patterns suggest that increases in ploidy levels may facilitate dispersing into new environments. -
Linnaeus Just North of Chicago
Number 42 February 21, 2008 A Newsletter for the flora of New Mexico, from the Charlotte Ellis of the Sandia Mountains Range Science Herbarium and Cooperative Extension Eugene Jercinovic Service, College of P.O. Box 246, Torreón, NM 87061 Agriculture and Home Economics, New Mexico “The poetry of history does not consist of imagination, but of imagination pursuing the fact State University. and fastening upon it. The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today. Yet they were once as real as we, and we shall tomorrow be shadows like them.” —George Macauley Trevelyan, FRS (1876-1962) THE REMARKABLE NATURALIST Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) began his professional scientific career as Curator of the Public Museum in Kingston, Jamaica in 1891. After two years, his In This Issue — tuberculosis, which he contracted in 1887, recurred, and he determined he needed to leave the moist climate of Jamaica. Having spent time in Colorado in order to effect an initial cure of his tuberculosis, Cockerell • Charlotte Ellis............1 wished he could return to the Rocky Mountains. It so happened that he was in correspondence with C.H.T. • Plant Reports ...........39 Townsend, then at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (NMCA & MA). Cockerell casually suggested that he and Townsend exchange positions. Amazingly Townsend agreed. Cockerell spent the years from 1893 to 1900 at Mesilla Park (now Las Cruces) NM. He then spent three years at New Mexico Normal University in Las Vegas NM before moving to Colorado, where he spent the rest of his career. -
Illustration Sources
APPENDIX ONE ILLUSTRATION SOURCES REF. CODE ABR Abrams, L. 1923–1960. Illustrated flora of the Pacific states. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. ADD Addisonia. 1916–1964. New York Botanical Garden, New York. Reprinted with permission from Addisonia, vol. 18, plate 579, Copyright © 1933, The New York Botanical Garden. ANDAnderson, E. and Woodson, R.E. 1935. The species of Tradescantia indigenous to the United States. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Reprinted with permission of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. ANN Hollingworth A. 2005. Original illustrations. Published herein by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth. Artist: Anne Hollingworth. ANO Anonymous. 1821. Medical botany. E. Cox and Sons, London. ARM Annual Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1889–1912. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. BA1 Bailey, L.H. 1914–1917. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture. The Macmillan Company, New York. BA2 Bailey, L.H. and Bailey, E.Z. 1976. Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada. Revised and expanded by the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Cornell University. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. Reprinted with permission from William Crepet and the L.H. Bailey Hortorium. Cornell University. BA3 Bailey, L.H. 1900–1902. Cyclopedia of American horticulture. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. BB2 Britton, N.L. and Brown, A. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British posses- sions. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. BEA Beal, E.O. and Thieret, J.W. 1986. Aquatic and wetland plants of Kentucky. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, Frankfort. Reprinted with permission of Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission. -
Vascular Plants of Williamson County Maurandya Antirrhiniflora Subsp
Vascular Plants of Williamson County Maurandya antirrhiniflora subsp. antirrhiniflora − SNAPDRAGONVINE [Plantaginaceae/Scrophulariaceae] Maurandya antirrhiniflora Willd. subsp. antirrhiniflora, SNAPDRAGONVINE. Perennial vine, twining via petioles, ± taprooted, not rosetted, frequently branching from axillary buds, scrambling over neighboring plants; shoots with only cauline leaves on slender stems, glabrous but leaves with stalked glandular hairs to 0.15 mm long and having colorless heads. Stems: cylindric, to 2 mm diameter, green, internodes flexible, to 20 mm long. Leaves: helically alternate (subopposite on lower stems), mostly 3-lobed, petiolate, without stipules; petiole never aging stress and sometimes with to 3 coils around slender plant axis, channeled base-to-tip or channeled only approaching blade, to 19 mm long, green, with ephemeral stalked glandular hairs on upper side at base of petiole (next to axillary bud) and mostly approaching blade; blade deltate to broadly triangular (hastate) or arrow-shaped (sagittate) in outline, (4.5−)6−27 × (4.5−)5−30 mm, subcordate to subtruncate at base, central lobes acute-triangular, basal lobes obtuse-ovate and sometimes with a diminutive lobe, sublobe, or short tooth on trailing edge (base), the lobes with a whitish, deltate point at tip, palmately 3-veined or 5-veined at base but veins not raised, upper surface having stalked glandular hairs mostly ephemeral but some persisting near petiole. Inflorescence: solitary flower, axillary while other buds expressed instead as lateral branches; bractlet subtending pedicel = cauline leaf; pedicel widely spreading from base and then strongly curved approaching flower, compressed top-to-bottom at least to midpoint, at anthesis 10−15 mm long increasing to 30 mm long in fruit, green, finally 2- ridged, mostly lacking glandular hairs. -
Lianas and Climbing Plants of the Neotropics: Plantaginaceae
GUIDE TO THE GENERA OF LIANAS AND CLIMBING PLANTS IN THE NEOTROPICS PLANTAGINACEAE By Mark T. Strong (Jan 2021) A widely distributed family of primarily herbs, subshrubs or shrubs with about 100 genera and ca. 1,900 species worldwide. In the Neotropics, they are represented by about 45 genera and ca. 400 species. Five genera and 14 species are treated below as climbing plants. These occur in a diversity of habitats from desert scrub to montane cloud forests. Diagnostics: In vegetative condition, climbing Plantaginaceae have stems that are quadrangular or terete; leaves are opposite, alternate or sometimes verticillate, glabrous or glandular- pubescent, simple, and stipules are absent. In the order Lamiales, the quadrangular stems and simple opposite leaves of some Plantaginaceae Russelia syringifolia Schltdl. & Cham., photo by J. might be confused with Acanthaceae, Amith Gesneriaceae, Lamiaceae and Verbenaceae. Acanthaceae generally have ovaries with hook-like placental tissue and capsules with explosive dehiscence while in Gesneriaceae, ovaries are unilocular with parietal placentation. Lamiaceae and Verbenaceae have 2-ovulate ovaries and the fruit is a 4-parted schizocarp or dry indehiscent drupe. GENERAL CHARACTERS 1. STEMS. Quadrangular (sometimes winged) or terete in cross section, commonly solid, but hollow in some species of Russelia (e.g. R. campechiana Standl.; fig. 1a), xylem with deep phloem wedges in species of Russelia (e.g., R. contrerasii B.L. Turner; fig. 1b). Vessels narrow and commonly radially disposed (Metcalfe & Chalk, 1957). No visible exudates reported for the group. 2. PUBESCENCE. Glabrous or glandular-pubescent. 3. LEAVES. Alternate, opposite, verticillate or opposite proximally and alternate distally, the blades deltoid to cordiform, hastate or sagittate at base with palmate venation, or sometimes linear to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate with pinnate venation, entire or with dentate margins, glabrous or glandular-pubescent; stipules absent. -
Second Issue of the Mediterranean Garden
THE Mediterranean Garden No. 2 Autumn 1995 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN A journal for gardeners in all the mediterranean climate regions of the world Published by the Mediterranean Garden Society, PO Box 14, Peania GR-19002, Greece. www.MediterraneanGardenSociety.org i Editors Caroline Harbouri Derek Toms Translations Graziella Seferiades Caroline Harbouri Illustrations Derek Toms * * * The Mediterranean Garden Society is a non-profit-making association which acts as a forum for everyone who has a special interest in the plants and gardens of the region. For details, please contact The Secretary, MGS, PO Box 14, Peania, 19002 Greece. Phototypeset by Eikonotypo S.A. Elia Eliou 64 & Koutsonika 5 Neos Kosmos 117 44 Athens Printed on recycled paper by Corfu Graphics Smolenski 9 & Telemachou 15 Neapolis 114 72 Athens Copyright of all articles remains with the authors. Views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the editors or of the Mediterranean Garden Society. ISSN 1106-5826 ii CONTENTS Meditorial 1 Domaine du Prieuré Joanna Millar 6 Inspired by Beth Chatto’s Garden Caroline Harbouri 12 Propagating Australian Plants Jeff Irons 16 Easy Flowering Plants John Calderwood 19 Kankerbos Tom Wellsted 21 Agapanthus for Your Garden Trevor Nottle 22 Acclimatisation Problems Piero Caneti 26 Bring the Plants of the Mountain into Your Garden Argyroupolis Environment Group 29 The Historic Gardens Foundation Gillian Mawrey 34 The Day Trip Russell Read 36 The Garden in Autumn Jenny Bussey 42 Sundries 44 Books 46 Letters 51 The Contributors 55 Getting in Touch 56 Mare Nostrum Spyros Harbouris 57 iii Bearded Iris and Lilium candidum iv (M)EDITORIAL Gardening, it is often said, is an activity which we tend to take up later in life. -
Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Program Center A Summary of Biological Inventory Data Collected at Padre Island National Seashore Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GULN/NRTR—2010/402 Pelicans are among the many species of birds present in the Laguna Madre area of PAIS. Kemp’s Ridley turtles are believed to remember the beach where they were hatched. Coyotes are among the animals known to inhabit the Padre Island National Seashore. Snapping turtles are tracked and monitored at PAIS. ON THE COVER Located along the south Texas coast, Padre Island National Seashore protects the longest undeveloped stretch of barrier islands in the world. Here, you can enjoy 70 miles of sandy beaches, wind-carved dunes, vast grasslands, fragile tidal flats, and warm, nearshore waters. Pelicans are among the many species of birds present in the Laguna Madre area of PAIS. NPS photos. A Summary of Biological Inventory Data Collected at Padre Island National Seashore Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GULN/NRTR—2010/402 Gulf Coast Network National Park Service 646 Cajundome Blvd. Room 175 Lafayette, LA 70506 November 2010 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Program Center Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Data Series is intended for the timely release of basic data sets and data summaries. -
2018 Edible Flowers
BCG Seedling Sale May 26, 2018 – part 3 2018 EDIBLE FLOWERS BUSH NASTURTIUMS AND CALENDULA Tropaeolum majus ‘Jewel Mix’ Bush (mounding) nasturtiums, 15”-18” (42 days) Bushy variety holds its blooms above the foliage. Early free-flowering blend of orange, yellow, red and gold. Edible flowers with spicy sweet fragrance lend a peppery-sweet taste to salads, with each color adding contrast and subtle variations in flavor. Round leaves also edible. Does not transplant well, so plant in situ. Likes full sun, cool evenings and moisture. Likes poor soil-do NOT overfertilize, or you will grow leaves and not flowers. To grow from seed: Cover with ½” soil. Firm soil, keep moist. Thin to 12” apart. Young leaves and flowers are edible. Plants might sulk during heat of summer, then resume bloom in the cooler fall. Tropaeolum majus ‘Alaska’ Bush (mounding) nasturtiums, 16” Good for hanging basket. (60 days) Striking variegated green and white foliage will make a formidable bush if you feed it heavily. But go easy on the nitrogen if you want to eat lots of its tangy yellow and orange blossoms. Edible flowers with spicy sweet fragrance lend a peppery-sweet taste to salads, leaves also edible. Does not transplant well, so plant in situ. Likes full sun, cool evenings and moisture. Likes poor soil-do NOT overfertilize, or you will grow leaves and not flowers. To grow from seed: Cover with ½” soil. Firm soil, keep moist. Thin to 12” apart. Young leaves and flowers are edible. Plants might sulk during heat of Tropaeolum minus ‘Peach Melba’ Bush (mounding) nasturtiums (60 days) Named for the dessert—peaches with raspberry sauce—that Escoffier created to honor 19th-century operatic soprano Nellie Melba.