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Magazine of the Colorado Native Plant Society Volume 45 No Aquilegia Magazine of the Colorado Native Plant Society Volume 45 No. 2 Spring 2021 Aquilegia Volume 45 No. 2 Spring 2021 www.CoNPS.org 1 Stream orchid, Epipactis gigantea (Orchidaceae). An uncommon orchid in Colorado, it is found in wet areas, including hanging gardens, marshes (particularly near hot springs), meadows, and in life zones ranging from desert to montane. The plants range in height from 30 cm up to one meter. Flower size is 2-5 cm in width. As found in other orchids, pollen is held in a structure called a pollinarium, comprised of a pollinium (coherent mass of pollen) and a viscidium (sticky tissue). This entire structure adheres to insects for transfer to another flower. Several different insects may be involved in E. gigantea pollination. In particular, syrphid flies have been documented as common visitors. One source of attraction for the flies are aphids, or the appearance of aphids due to mimetic morphology of the orchid’s lower lip. KA See page 8 for a research report on E. gigantea by Denise Wilson and Rea Orthner. Cover photo © Scotty Smith. Map adapted from Ackerfield, J. Flora of Sequential photographs showing visitation and pollen Colorado. 2015. transfer by a syrphid fly (June 2008). © Denise Wilson p562. Botanicum absurdum by Rob Pudim Aquilegia Observes Plant Names per Flora of Colorado Just as this publication has a style sheet to help maintain some level of consistency in formatting and editorial style from issue to issue, Aquilegia also adheres to the botanical Latin plant names used in Flora of Colorado (2015) by Jennifer Ackerfield. While common names might vary from region to region, binomial Latin names provide a common starting point to guide a conversation about a particular native plant. Flora of Colorado provides the most current Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system standards, sorting taxa into the most recent family frameworks. 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 © Rob Pudim online guide to North American Vascular Flora (http://www.bonap.org/), and other resources. 2 www.CoNPS.org Aquilegia Volume 45 No. 2 Spring 2021 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 Story Yes, Virginia, Manzanitas Do Grow Wild in Colorado! The Cultivation of Arctostaphylos in Colorado BY PANAYOTI KELAIDIS ................................................................................................................ 4 Research and Reports Epipactis gigantea Population Stable, but Numbers and Growth Tied to Precipitation Patterns BY DENISE C. WILSON AND REA ORTHNER ............................................................................................................ 8 Columns Botany Basics: “Hair” and Its Role in Plants BY MARY MENZ .......................................................................... 14 Conservation Corner: Will Colorado Protect Rare Plants from Oil and Gas? BY BRAD KLAFEHN ...................... 16 Garden Natives: The Woody Artemisias: The Species and Their Propagation Part 3 of a Series BY JIM BORLAND ............................................................................................................ 20 Tips from the Pros: Think before You Buy Soil BY MAGGIE GADDIS .................................................................. 24 Poetry: Leucocrinum montanum BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD .................................................................................... 25 News, Events, and Announcements Announcements ....................................................................................................................................... 26 CoNPS Garden Tours .............................................................................................................................. 27 CoNPS Webinars ..................................................................................................................................... 28 CoNPS Chapter Updates and Events ....................................................................................................... 29 CoNPS Field Trips ................................................................................................................................... 30 Cross-Pollination Events .......................................................................................................................... 30 Book Review: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers REVIEWED BY SUZANNE DINGWELL ................................................................................. 31 Meet the New Aquilegia Team ................................................................................................................. 33 Blast from the Past: Growing a Colorado Native Shrub, Kinnikinnick or Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) BY GAIL EVANS AND KIM VORIES ............................................................................. 37 Can You ID These Spring Flowers? BY MARLENE BORNEMAN ........................................................................ 39 AQUILEGIA: Magazine of the Colorado BOARD OF DIRECTORS Native Plant Society OPERATING COMMITTEE: Deryn Davidson, [email protected]; Ann Grant, [email protected]; Secretary: Amy Aquilegia Vol. 45 No.2 Spring 2021 Yarger, [email protected]; Treasurer: Mo Ewing, [email protected] ISSN 2161-7317 (Online) - ISSN 2162- CHAPTER PRESIDENTS: Boulder: Patricia Butler, Lynn Riedel, Pam Sherman, Anna Theodorakos, Noonie Yaron, 0865 (Print) Copyright CoNPS © 2021 [email protected]; Metro-Denver: Dina Baker, Emily Clapper, Rahman Minhas, Lindsay Nerad, Rachel Puttmann, Audrey Members receive at least four regular Spencer, [email protected]; Northern: Ann Grant on behalf of chapter leadership team, [email protected]; Plateau: issues per year (Spring, Summer, Fall, Jim Pisarowicz, [email protected], David Varner, [email protected]; San Luis Valley: Carol English, Winter). At times, issues may be [email protected]; Southeast: Maggie Gaddis, [email protected]; Southwest: Anthony Culpepper, combined. All contributions are subject to [email protected], Amanda Kuenzi, [email protected], Michael Remke, [email protected] editing for brevity, grammar, and consistency, with final approval of DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE: Christina Alba, [email protected]; Deryn Davidson, [email protected]; Steve substantive changes by the author. Olson, [email protected]; Anna Wilson, [email protected]; Tom Zeiner, [email protected] Articles from Aquilegia may be used by OTHER CONTACTS other native plant societies or non-profit COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Conservation: Mo Ewing, [email protected]; Education & Outreach: empty; Field Studies: Steve groups if fully cited to the author and Olson, [email protected], Lara Duran, [email protected]; Finance: Mo Ewing; Horticulture: Ann Grant, attributed to Aquilegia. [email protected]; Media: Kelly Ambler, [email protected]; Research Grants: Stephen Stern, [email protected]; Managing/Design Editor: Kelly Ambler, Christina Alba, [email protected]; Restoration: Haley Stratton, [email protected]; Scholarships: Cecily Mui, [email protected] [email protected] Co-Editor: Gayle Hemenway Copy Editor: Alan Moores SOCIAL MEDIA: E-News Editor: Linda Smith, [email protected]; Facebook: Denise Wilson, [email protected]; Jen Botanical Names Editor: Elizabeth Taylor Bousselot, [email protected]; Deryn Davidson, [email protected]; Carol English, [email protected]; Proofreaders: Nan Daniels, Suzanne Anna Wilson, [email protected]; Denise Wilson; Tom Zeiner, [email protected]. Twitter and Instagram: Jen Bousselot, Dingwell, Alyse Greenberg, Jenifer Heath, Denise Wilson; Webmaster: Mo Ewing, [email protected] Sue Keefer Patty Rhodes, Cathi Schramm, CoNPS PAID STAFF: Linda Smith, administrative coordinator, [email protected], 970-663-4085; Denise Wilson, marketing & Linda Smith, John Vickery, Anna Wilson events coordinator, [email protected]; Kathleen Okon, workshop coordinator, [email protected] Aquilegia Volume 45 No. 2 Spring 2021 www.CoNPS.org 3 Featured Story Yes, Virginia, Manzanitas Do Grow Wild in Colorado! The Cultivation of Arctostaphylos in Colorado By Panayoti Kelaidis the first in the United States to discover It all began around my parents’ kitchen table in 1963. parthenogenesis in vertebrates. My brother-in-law and plant mentor Allan Taylor had just returned from Berkeley, where he had obtained Although he was curator of biology at the CU his doctorate to teach at CU Boulder. Although a herbarium and a popular professor who fostered large native Coloradan—from Palisade in the Grand Valley, numbers of graduate students, he had an abiding to boot—he had fallen head over heels in love with passion for gardening that perhaps was inspired by California horticulture and was despairing at what to growing up on Lushan, one of the greatest mountain grow in poor, impoverished Colorado. “Heck, we don’t ranges in Central China and a biological hot spot. He even have manzanitas!” he pronounced. practiced the traditional
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