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INPS Newsletter Feburary 2001 NEWSLETTER Iowa Native Plant Society Volume 7, Issue 1 February 2001 Iowa's Very Own IX. Prairie Obedient-plant, Physostegia virginiana yare arenaria Shimek by Thomas G. Lammers When I started botanizing in southeastern Iowa 25 years encounters in the Midwest were coined by European or ago, one ofthe first local floras I picked up was Vascular East Coast botanists such as Linnaeus, or Michaux, or Plants ofScott and Muscatine Counties by Ludwig F. Asa Gray. Furthermore, I could not find this name in Guldner ofthe Davenport Public Museum. I any other books I checked. It was not included in any never learned too much about Dr. Guldner, but I quickly state or regional floras at my disposal, including the realized that his 1960 publication was one ofthe finest, eighth edition of Gray's Manual ofBotany, which is most detailed floristic studies every published in the state. (in)famous for the numerous varieties and forms it He obviously had an intimate knowledge ofthe plants of treats. I could not even fmd the name in the supposedly east-central Iowa, based on long study and careful re­ exhaustive Gray Herbarium Card Index to the names of search. Clearly, he was not content to accept the pro­ North American plants. The only clue I had was Guld­ nouncements of "big-league" botanists at major botanical ner's cryptic note, "(See 'The Prairies' p. 223)." Eventu­ centers, but conducted original investigations ofthe char­ ally, I figured out that this note referred to the major acteristics and variability oflocal populations. To this treatise on Iowa prairies published in 1911 in the Bulle­ day, Guldner's flora remains an exemplary study. tin ofthe Laboratories ofNatural History, State Univer­ sity ofIowa by Bohumil Shimek (1861-1937). One plant listed in Guldner's book caught my eye, be­ cause I recognized its author as an Iowa botanist: Phy­ Shimek was a professor of botany at the University of sostegia virginiana var. arenaria Shimek. As we've Iowa from 1890 until his death and ranks among Iowa's noted in this series, most scientific names that one greatest pioneer botanists. Shimek State Forest in Lee and Van Buren Counties honors his contributions to Inside this issue: conservation in the state, as does an elementary school in Iowa City. With T. H. Macbride, he was a co­ Leaves from the President's Notebook 2 founder ofthe Iowa Lakeside Laboratory at Lake Oko­ boji, which has educated generations ofstudents in The Iowa Orchid Book 3 Iowa's natural history. Though he collected thousands ofspecimens in the state, he was primarily an ecologist and did not do very much descriptive taxonomy. 18th Annual Prairie Review 3 But there, on page 223 ofhis 1911 prairie monograph, INPS Field Trips 2001 4 was the name P. virginiana var. arenaria Shimek. Shimek considered this to be a dry prairie ecotype of the common Obedient Plant, P. virginiana (L.) Benth., Announcements 8 which grows in wet prairie, floodplain forest, and marshy habitats. In a brieffootnote, Shimek provided Membership Form 9 enough descriptive material to validly publish the name. (continued page 7) Memoriam 10 PAGE 2 IOWA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY VOLUME 7, ISSUE I President: Tom Rosburg P.O. Box 234 • Leaves from the President's Notebook Colo, IA 50056 515-377-2930 As the recently elected president for [NPS (see what happens when you [email protected] miss the annual meeting), I guess this is sort ofan inaugural address. Vice President: First, I think I can speak for the membership in offering a huge "thank­ Mary Jane Hatfield you" to Ed Freese, who has done a great job as president over the last couple ofyears. 2505 Tullamore Lane, Ames, IA 50010 Both Ed and Christine Kirpes (first president for INPS) have done well in representing 515-232-7555 and leading the INPS during its seedling stage. We also should acknowledge and thank Mary Brown, who had served as Treasurer (probably the most busy ofthe officer posi­ Secretary: Linda Scarth 1630 Wildwood Dr. NE tions) since the INPS was born. Ofcourse there are (and have been) many people that Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 have contributed to the success ofINPS. From all ofthose involved in planning, orga­ [email protected] nizing and leading field trips to those that produce the newsletter, submit articles, or Treasurer: Diana Horton travel with our display board to promote the INPS. It's truly a grassroots-powered or­ 720 Sandusky Drive ganization - just the way it should be. Iowa City, IA 52240 319-337-5430 Education is certainly a priority for INPS and several facets ofINPS have really contrib­ [email protected] uted to its success. One is the field trips. Participants in last year's field trips ranged Issues/Action Committee: from 4-5 up to 22. Some ofthe low counts were on "bad weather" days or in the more Jane Clark sparsely populated western side ofthe state. The annual offerings have consistently rep­ 9871 Lincoln Ave Clive, IA 50325 resented a diversity in habitats and geographical locations throughout the state. A second 515-232-5047 "pat-on-the-back" goes to the newsletter. The blend ofa variety ofarticles, their infor­ [email protected] mative, concise, and easy-to-read style, and the announcements ofevents and activities Program Committee: sponsored by other groups all serve the membership very well. The $10 membership fee Chairman: Mark Leoschke is well-worth the value in the newsletter. And finally the third area ofsuccess has been 2212 East Rose Ave #13 the e-mail list serve (which anyone can subscribe to). It has provided a forum for discus­ Des Moines, IA 50320-2613 mark.leoshke@ sions on topics relevant to all who have a love ofplants. In many instances it has served dnr.state.ia.us as a spark for activism within the group, another important activity for INPS that is oth­ erwise without much presence in the membership. Mary Brown 330 Windsor Dr. Iowa City, IA 52245 So where do we go from here? Hopefully to greater heights - but it take a continued in­ 319-338-3875 terest and action from the membership. I welcome any comments or ideas you may mbrown@ blue.weeg.uiowa.edu have. Send them to my home address or by email. A few of my own ideas for "improvement" are: 1) get information on field trips out to the local County Conserva­ Judy Felder tion Board and newspapers to encourage more local participation; it could help grow the 335 Beldon Ave Iowa City, IA 52246 membership, 2) consider including other features in the newsletter like non-technical 319-351-7718 keys to common genera or reviews ofwebsites on plants, and 3) try to expand the ways rfelder@ the INPS can provide assistance to landowners who want to make a commitment to con­ blue.weeg.uiowa.edu serving natural areas and native plants on their land. Let me know what you think. I'm Tom Rosburg (see above) anxious to hear from you. William C. Watson P.O. Box 281 I suspect that many ofyou may not know much about me, so I'll close with a short bio­ Cedar Falls, IA 50613 graphical sketch. I grew up on a farm on the eastern edge ofthe Loess Hills in Monona County. After earning a B.S in Fish and Wildlife Biology at Iowa State, I worked for a Historian: Deborah Q. Lewis few years as a wildlife biologist for the Iowa Conservation Commission, the Bureau of Dept. of Botany, ISU Land Management in Wyoming, and the Fish and Wildlife Service in Colorado. I then Ames,IA 50011-1020 returned to beloved Iowa and practiced sustainable agriculture on a small self-sufficient 515-294-9499 farm (first in Benton County and then on the home farm in Monona County). In the mid 1980's, I left the farm for a second time and began eight years ofwork on graduate de­ grees. Both my Masters and PhD focused in the area ofplant and prairie ecology. I'm currently a biology professor at Drake University. My interests include pretty much any­ thing that gets me outside - in particular photography, backpacking and rock scrambling, camping, bird watching, fishing and ofcourse - plant hunting. Printed on recycled paper Tom Rosburg VOLUME 7 , 1SSUE I IOWA N ATIVE PLANT SOCIETY PAGE 3 THE IOWA ORCIllD BOOK By Mark J. Leoschke and Bill Witt Bill Witt, photographer, writer and state legislator, says we monitored a large population (100-500 blooming there is light at the end ofthe tunnel. A book devoted to stems annually) offall coral-root (Corallorhiza odon­ Iowa's orchids, a project that he has dreamed about and torhiza) at Wildcat Den State Park. As the deer herd worked on for years, is in the works! Bill hopes to have continued to grow and concentrate itself in the shel­ his dream in print in two to three years. The book will tered, deciduous woods where the orchids grew, im­ deal in part with the county distribution of Iowa's or­ pacts became increasingly severe. The last year ofour chids. Anyone who is interested in helping to document survey, we found the understory completely grazed to county records for this effort should contact Mark J. Leo­ bare ground and leaf mold, with an occasional raspberry schke at [email protected], (515) 281-5951 bush standing forlornly here and there. (The destruc­ or Wildlife Bureau, DNR, Wallace Building, Des Moines, tion couldn't have been more complete if a flock of Iowa 50319. There are potentially a lot ofrecords to be sheep had been penned there for a month.) added since some species in this family are easily over­ looked due to their small size, drab coloration or erratic We saw similar, but not quite so thorough, depauperiza­ blooming.
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