Orobanche Californica Ssp. Grandis
''Orobanche californica'', known by the common name California broomrape, is a species of broomrape. It is a parasitic plant growing attached to the roots of other plants, usually members of the Asteraceae. Distribution ''Orobanche californica'' is native to western North America from British Columbia and Idaho, through California and Nevada, to Baja California.USDA
. accessed 5.15.2013 It is found in many types of habitats. It has been noted to be associated with California goldenrod (''Solidago californica'') and sagebrush (''Artemisia tridentata' ...
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Adelbert Von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt. Life The son of Louis Marie, Count of Chamisso, by his marriage to Anne Marie Gargam, Chamisso began life as Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the ''château'' of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family. His name appears in several forms, one of the most common being ''Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso.''Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli. 1996. ''Authors of Scientific Names in Pteridophyta''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 1790, the French Revolution drove his parents out of France with their seven children, and they went successively to Liège, the Hague, Würzburg, and Bayreuth, and possibly Hamburg, before settling in Berlin. There, in 179 ...
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