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Hackelia Bella
''Hackelia bella'' is a species of flowering plant in the Boraginaceae, borage family known by the common name greater showy stickseed. It is native to the northern California Coast Ranges and the Klamath Mountains in northeastern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is found in yellow pine forest, red fir forest habitats. Description ''Hackelia bella'' is a sprawling perennial herb that grows hairy stems to about half a meter in height. Many long, thin oval-shaped leaves surround the base of the plant, up to about 26 centimeters long each. Leaves farther up the stem are similar but shorter and the tops of the stems have few leaves. The small flowers have five lobes with a small petallike appendage at the base of each lobe. The flowers are usually white. The fruit is a nutlet 5 or 6 millimeters wide. External links Calflora Database: ''Hackelia bella'' (Greater showy stickseed) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francis Macbride
James Francis Macbride (19 May 1892 16 June 1976) was an American botanist who devoted most of his professional life to the study of the flora of Peru. Early life and education Born on 19 May 1892 in Rock Valley, Iowa, Macbride graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1914 and worked briefly at the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. Career In 1921, Macbride joined the staff of the Department of Botany at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to head the nascent Flora of Peru program. Peru had been selected as the center of floristic research by C. F. Millspaugh, the Museum's first Curator of Botany. In 1922, Macbride and his assistant William Featherstone embarked on the first of two expeditions to Peru. They initially collected in the highland regions of the Departments of Lima, Junín, Huánuco, and Pasco. Macbride returned the following year to the Huánuco region and the Río Ucayali. For a decade from 1929, Macbride visited all the major herbaria of Europe to ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |