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Baptisia Arachnifera
''Baptisia arachnifera'', commonly known as hairy rattleweed, cobwebby wild indigo, hairy wild indigo, and hairy false indigo, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the legume family. Its native habitat is limited to sandy soils in pinewoods along the coastal plain of the U.S. state of Georgia. Taxonomy Wilbur H. Duncan first described this species in 1944 after collecting a specimen in 1942 from a site in Wayne County, Georgia. Description ''Baptisia arachnifera'' is a perennial that grows to a height of forty to eighty centimeters and is "covered with grayish-white, cobwebby hairs". Blue-green, simple leaves are alternate and heart-shaped. They range in size from 2–6 cm long by 1.5–5 cm wide. Flowers form in terminal racemes with five bright yellow petal Petals are modified Leaf, leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often advertising coloration, brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. All of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbur Howard Duncan
Wilbur Howard Duncan (October 15, 1910 – March 25, 2005) was a botany professor at the University of Georgia for 40 years where he oversaw an expansion in the school's herbarium collection and described three new plant species. Duncan also authored several books on plant species of the Eastern United States, Eastern and Southeastern United States. Biography Duncan was born in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York, on October 15, 1910. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees, in 1932 and 1933, from Indiana University, then his PhD in botany from Duke University in 1938. He then began a forty-year period in the faculty at the University of Georgia. As Curator of the UGA Herbarium, he increased the collection size from 16,000 to 135,000 specimens. He personally collected over thirty thousand specimens, which he shared with Herbarium, herbaria across the country. During World War II, Duncan served in the United States Public Health Service, in which he earned the rank of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptisia Arachnifera 3
''Baptisia'' (wild indigo, false indigo) is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. The species most commonly found in cultivation is '' B. australis''. ''Baptisia'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the jaguar flower moth, ''Schinia jaguarina''. Species ''Baptisia'' comprises the following species: * ''Baptisia alba'' (L.) Vent.—white wild indigo ** var. ''alba'' (L.) Vent. ** var. ''macrophylla'' (Larisey) Isely * ''Baptisia albescens'' Small * '' Baptisia arachnifera'' W.H. Duncan—cobwebby wild indigo, hairy rattleweed (limited to two counties in southeastern Georgia) * ''Baptisia australis'' (L.) R. Br.—blue false indigo, blue wild indigo ** var. ''australis'' (L.) R. Br. ** var. ''minor'' (Lehm.) Fernald * ''Baptisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Georgia (U
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example ''Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. ''Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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