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Aquilegia 2020 Winter Volume 44-1 Aquilegia Magazine of the Colorado Native Plant Society Volume 44 No. 1 Winter 2020 Aquilegia Volume 44 No. 1 Winter 2020 www.CoNPS.org 1 Mountain Ninebark, Physocarpus monogynus (Rosaceae). This shrub is common in elevations of 4,800-10,500’, generally in partially to fully shaded areas. It may be confused with Ribes sp. A key characteristic of the plant is the peeling bark of the older stems, which helps with identification even in the winter. In the summer, the white flowers are arranged in corymbs, with exerted stamens. In winter, the browned flowers usually remain attached to the stems. Leaves are palmately lobed and conspicuously veined. This is an attractive shrub for shady gardens. The flowers are a valuable source of nectar for native pollinators, particularly bees, and provide good cover for birds. Some American Indian tribes made a pain-relieving poultice by boiling the roots and placing the warmed plant material on the affected site. KA Map adapted from Ackerfield, J. Flora of Colorado, p. 726 (2015). Botanicum absurdum by Rob Pudim PHOTO CREDITS: FRONT COVER and PAGE 2: © Audrey Spencer; see page 11 for additional information. Aquilegia uses Jennifer Ackerfield’s Flora of Colorado (2015) as its preferred guide to plant naming conventions. Readers may also want to familiarize themselves with other guides such as Colorado Flora, Eastern and Western editions, by William A. Weber and Ronald C. Wittmann (2012), as well as The Biota of North America Program online guide to North American Vascular Flora (http://www.bonap.org/), and other resources. © Rob Pudim 2 www.CoNPS.org Aquilegia Volume 44 No. 1 Winter 2020 Aquilegia: Magazine of the Colorado Native Plant Society Dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation, and conservation of native plants and habitats of Colorado through education, stewardship, and advocacy Inside this Issue Featured Stories Celebrating the Bicentennial of Stephen H. Long’s Expedition. Part 1 of 4: An Introduction to the Voyage and Noteworthy Species from the Colorado Border to the Rockies BY MIKE KINTGEN AND JEN TOEWS .............. 4 Changes in the Colorado Alpine: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly BY TIM SEASTEDT ........................................ 8 Columns Conservation Corner: Front Range Physocarpus and the Eastern Woodland-Prairie Element BY AUDREY SPENCER .................................................................................................................... 11 Garden Natives: A Coreopsis Lookalike—Greenthread (Thelesperma filifolium) BY JIM BORLAND ................... 13 Restoration Roundup: From High Desert Scrub to Colorado Native Plant Garden BY JUDY KENNEDY .............. 14 Poetry: Earthly Bride BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD ....................................................................................................... 23 Research and Reports Prelude to a Spritz: Characterization of a Riparian Cottonwood Forest Prior to Flooding by the Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project BY ASHLEY PURCELL AND ERIN K. BISSELL ................................... 16 Documenting the Insect and Microbial Communities that Utilize Gambel Oak (Quercus gambelii Nutt.) to Inform Conservation Management BY RACHAEL SITZ AND MELISSA SCHREINER .............................................. 20 Media Reviews The Cactus Plot Murder in the High Desert by Vicky Rannkka REVIEW BY SHIRLEY NILSON ........................................................................................................................... 24 Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben REVIEW BY JACK CARTER .............................................................................................................................. 24 News and Announcements Ackerfield Named Head Curator of DBG Natural History Collections ......................................................... 27 Chapter Events ........................................................................................................................................ 29 CoNPS Workshops .................................................................................................................................. 31 Cross-Pollination Events .......................................................................................................................... 33 Can You ID these Seedheads? BY KELLY AMBLER ......................................................................................... 35 OPERATING COMMITTEE & LEADERSHIP TEAM: Mo Ewing, [email protected]; Ann Grant, [email protected]; AQUILEGIA: Magazine of the Colorado David Julie, [email protected]; Irene Weber, [email protected]; Amy Yarger, [email protected]; Secretary: Amy Native Plant Society Yarger, [email protected]; Treasurer: Mo Ewing, [email protected] Aquilegia Vol. 44 No.1 Winter 2020 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS: Boulder: Pam Sherman, [email protected]; Metro-Denver: Lenore Mitchell, ISSN 2161-7317 (Online) - ISSN 2162-0865 [email protected]; Northern: Ann Grant on behalf of chapter leadership team, [email protected]; Plateau: Susan (Print) Copyright CoNPS © 2020 Carter, [email protected], Jim Pisarowicz, [email protected], David Varner, [email protected]; Members receive at least four regular issues Southeast: Maggie Gaddis, [email protected]; Southwest: Anthony Culpepper, per year (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). At [email protected], Amanda Kuenzi, [email protected], Michael Remke, [email protected] times, issues may be combined. All contributions are subject to editing for brevity, MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Christina Alba, [email protected]; Deryn Davidson, [email protected]; grammar, and consistency, with final approval Steve Olson, [email protected]; Irene Weber, [email protected]; Anna Wilson, [email protected]; Tom Zeiner, of substantive changes by the author. Articles [email protected] from Aquilegia may be used by other native COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Conservation: Mo Ewing, [email protected]; Education & Outreach: David Julie, plant societies or non-profit groups if fully [email protected]; Field Studies: Steve Olson, [email protected], Lara Duran, [email protected]; Finance: Mo cited to the author and attributed to Aquilegia. 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Long’s Expedition Part 1 of 4: An Introduction to the Voyage and Noteworthy Species from the Colorado Border to the Rockies By Mike Kintgen and Jen Toews This is the first in a series of four articles about the New Mexico, the panhandle of Texas, and Oklahoma. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. For the sake of brevity and relevance, we will only cover the Colorado portion of the expedition. Two hundred years ago, the Front Range and eastern plains of Colorado were largely unknown to citizens of In this four-article series, we will divide the trip into the youthful United States. In 1803, over a decade four sections: the eastern plains, the Front Range, the earlier, much of eastern Colorado had become US Pikes Peak region, and the Arkansas River valley. We territory with the Louisiana Purchase. In the years that will also outline some of the expedition’s noteworthy followed, several expeditions were sent west to botanical discoveries. explore this vast new addition to the US, most notably To set the stage, let’s meet some of the key players of the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804-1806 and the Long expedition. the Pike expedition from 1806-1807. Of these two, only the Pike expedition entered what would become Stephen Harriman Long, the present-day Colorado. leader of the expedition, was originally from New Many books have been written about the scientific, Hampshire and had been geographic, and cultural discoveries of the Lewis and educated at Dartmouth Clark expedition. Pike’s expedition, which left less of a College. While living in scientific record, is still covered in Colorado history Philadelphia, he became a courses. After Pike’s visit, 13 years would pass before schoolteacher and a principal, another US-mandated expedition would enter what gained some notoriety as an would become the Centennial State. This expedition, inventor of machinery, and led by Major Stephen H. Long between the years of did some surveying. The 1819 and 1820, is lesser-known and arguably has not latter two activities brought received due credit given its significant contributions
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