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Chionodes Braunella
''Chionodes braunella'' is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alberta and British Columbia to Colorado, Arizona, California and to Washington, southern Ontario and Maine. The larvae feed on ''Lupinus albifrons'', '' Lupinus arboreus'', '' Lupinus chamissionis'', ''Lupinus excubitus'', ''Lupinus ornatus'', ''Lupinus peirsonii'', '' Lupinus varicolor'', ''Lotus scoparius'', '' Trifolium eriocephalum'', ''Trifolium wormskioldii'', ''Vicia americana'', '' Lathyrus vestitus'', '' Lathyrus sulphureus'' and ''Gaylussacia ''Gaylussacia'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the majo ...'' species. References Chionodes Moths described in 1931 Moths of North America {{Chionodes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupinus Excubitus
''Lupinus excubitus'' is a species of lupine known as the grape soda lupine. Its common name refers to its sweet scent, which is said to be very reminiscent of grape soda. This species and its variants are found in Southwestern United States, especially in California and Nevada, e.g., Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, and northwestern Mexico. Description ''Lupinus excubitus'' is a small shrub with gray-green foliage. The fan-shaped leaves are borne on the stem and may be clustered at the base. Generally covered with silvery hairs, each is made up of 7 to 10 narrow leaflets. The raceme inflorescence is a tall stalk of rich purple flowers, each with a bright yellow spot. The occasional variant has white flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechani ...s. The fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chionodes
''Chionodes'' is a genus of moths of the family Gelechiidae. It is distributed throughout much of the world. The larvae of many species use the Douglas fir as a host plant. Species *The formosella species-group **''Chionodes formosella''-complex ***''Chionodes abitus'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes argentipunctella'' (Ely, 1910) ***'' Chionodes bicostomaculella'' (Chambers, 1872) ***'' Chionodes formosella'' (Murtfeldt, 1881) ***''Chionodes fuscomaculella'' (Chambers, 1872) ***'' Chionodes hapsus'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes iridescens'' Clarke, 1947 ***'' Chionodes percultor'' Hodges, 1999 ***''Chionodes powelli'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes suasor'' Hodges, 1999 **''Chionodes gilvomaculella''-complex ***'' Chionodes abavus'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes cacula'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes drapeta'' Hodges, 1999 ***'' Chionodes emptor'' Hodges, 1999 ***''Chionodes esor'' Hodges, 1999 ***''Chionodes gilvomaculella'' (Clemens, 1863) ***'' Chionodes rabula'' Hodges, 1999 **''Chio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaylussacia
''Gaylussacia'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the majority of the known species). Common English names include huckleberry (shared with plants in several other genera) and "dangleberry". ''Gaylussacia'' plants are often a component of an oak-heath forest. They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs growing to a height of . Ecology ''Gaylussacia'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) species including '' Coleophora gaylussaciella'' (which feeds exclusively on ''Gaylussacia'') and '' Coleophora multicristatella''. Classification ''Gaylussacia'' is named in honor of the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850). It is closely related to ''Vaccinium ''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lathyrus Sulphureus
''Lathyrus sulphureus'' is a species of wild pea known by the common names snub pea and sulphur pea. It is native to the mountains of northern California and Oregon, where it grows in forest and woodland. Description ''Lathyrus sulphureus'' is a hairless perennial herb with leaves made up of many oval-shaped leaflets each up to 4 centimeters long. The leaves are tipped with branching, coiled tendrils and the large stipules may be over 2 centimeters long. The plant produces a dense inflorescence of up to 15 pea flowers which are often arranged in a line down one side of the stem. The flowers are light yellow to deep orange and darken as they age. They are wide and have deeply folded faces. The fruit is a hairless dehiscent legume pod. References External links * Calflora Database: ''Lathyrus sulphureus'' (Brewer's pea, Snub pea, Sulpher pea) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lathyrus Vestitus
''Lathyrus vestitus'' is a species of wild pea known by the common name Pacific pea. It is native to western North America, where it is mostly found in the forests, woodlands, and chaparral of California. The ranges of some subspecies extend into Oregon and Baja California. This is a perennial pea vine which varies in appearance across subspecies. Leaves are made up of several leaflets of various shapes up to 4 or 5 centimeters long. The leaves usually bear coiling tendrils and the stipules may be large or small. The inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ... is a showy array of up to 15 pea flowers, sometimes densely packed together, and usually some shade of bright violet, light to medium purple, or white. Subspecies ''Lathyrus vestitus'' is often discusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicia Americana
''Vicia americana'' is a species of legume in the vetch genus known by the common names American vetch and purple vetch. It includes a subspecies known as mat vetch. Description It is a climbing perennial forb that grows from both taproot and rhizome. The leaves are each made up of oblong leaflets and have tendrils for climbing. It bears showy pea like flowers in shades of lavender and fuchsia. The fruit is a hairless flat pod about 3 centimeters long that contains usually two light brown peas. American vetch is widespread across North America. It is a common understory plant in many types of forest and other habitats such as chaparral and it provides forage for wild and domesticated animals. This vetch is used to reclaim burned or disturbed land, such as that which has been cleared by wildfire or altered by human activities such as mining or construction. It is drought-tolerant and thrives in both dry and moist, and sandy or coarse loamy soil habitats. References Ecology o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trifolium Wormskioldii
''Trifolium wormskioldii'' is a species of clover''Trifolium wormskioldii''. The Nature Conservancy. native to the western half of North America. Its common names include cows clover, coast clover, sand clover, seaside clover, springbank clover, and Wormskjold's clover. Description ''Trifolium wormskioldii'', a , is a herb sometimes taking a matlike form, with decumbent or upright stems. The |
Trifolium Eriocephalum
''Trifolium eriocephalum'' is a species of clover known by the common name woollyhead clover or hairy head clover. Distribution The plant is native to the north-western United States, and to California, Nevada, and Utah. It is a common plant of several types of habitat, including Coast redwood forest, coastal prairie, mixed evergreen forest, and yellow pine forest. Description ''Trifolium eriocephalum'' is a hairy perennial herb producing an upright, unbranched stem. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 3 centimeters long with flowers spreading and soon drooping. The flower has a densely hairy, tubular calyx of sepals with long, narrow linear lobes that may bend outward. The white or yellowish corolla may be up to 1.4 centimeters long. Subspecies *''Trifolium eriocephalum'' ssp. ''cusickii'' — Cusick's clover, Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorhei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotus Scoparius
''Acmispon glaber'' (previously ''Lotus scoparius'') (common deerweed, deer weed, deervetch, California broom or western bird's-foot trefoil) is a perennial subshrub in the family Fabaceae (pea family). The plant is a pioneer species found in dry areas of California, Arizona, and Mexico. It is commonly found in many areas including chaparral, coastal sand and roadsides at elevations below 1500 m. Description The ''Acmispon glaber'' stems are green, erect, somewhat branched, with small, deciduous, pinnate leaves consisting of three to six leaflets. The plant blooms from about March to August and has flowers that are bilateral, small (7–11 mm), yellow, and clustered together in an inflorescence consisting of two to seven flowers in the upper leaf axils. The flowers become reddish with age. The fruit consists of a curved legume with two seeds. Ecology ''Acmispon glaber'' is a food consumed by numerous wildlife, providing intake for hummingbirds, bees, butterfly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupinus Varicolor
''Lupinus variicolor'' (varied lupine, manycolored lupine, Lindley's varied lupine or varicolored lupine) is a shrub in the lupine (lupin) genus ''Lupinus''. ''Lupinus variicolor'' is endemic 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 elsew ... to California where it occurs mostly along the northern coast, though it has also been reported in Sutter County, California. Calflora Database It is one of the foodplants of the endangered mission blue butterfly. It thrives in elevatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupinus Peirsonii
''Lupinus peirsonii'' is a rare species of lupine known by the common names Peirson's lupine and long lupine. It is endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, California, where it grows in woodland and forest habitat. It is an erect, branching perennial herb growing 30 to 60 centimeters tall. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 8 fleshy leaflets up to 7 centimeters long. The herbage is coated in silvery silky hairs. The inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ... is a raceme of whorled yellow flowers each about a centimeter in length. The fruit is a silky-haired legume pod 3 or 4 centimeters long. External linksJepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
