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Reed Clark Rollins
Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 191128 April 1998) was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ... and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant TaxonomyCowan, R. S. and Stafleu, F. A. (1982) "The origin and early history of IAPT" ''Taxon'' 31(3): pp. 415–420 and the Organization for Tropical Studies. He was also the second president of each of them."Organization for Tropical Studies - The Rogues Gallery of Presidents"
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Artemisia Tripartita
''Artemisia tripartita'' is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name threetip sagebrush. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Nevada and Montana to Colorado. It covers about 8.4 million acres (3.4 million hectares) of the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin.Tirmenstein, D. 1999''Artemisia tripartita''In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. Ecology This plant is common and can be dominant in some regions, including the steppe of Washington, the sagebrush of southern Idaho, and the grassland and shrubland in western Montana. It grows on steep slopes and rocky, shallow soils. It tolerates dry soils well. Description This plant is an evergreen shrub up to 2 meters tall. The subspecies ''rupicola'' (Wyoming threetip sagebrush) is a dwarf subspecies with decumbent branches, spreading to about half a meter but growing onl ...
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Phlox Hoodii
''Phlox hoodii'', the spiny phlox or carpet phlox, is a species of phlox. It is a plant of western North America, where it is a common flower in sagebrush country, mostly growing in dry lithosol habitats. It is among the first plants to bloom in Spring (season), spring, after the snow has melted. Its distribution extends from Alaska to Arizona. There are many subspecies. This Perennial plant, perennial Herbaceous plant, herb is variable in morphology, but usually forms a tight mat or loose clump on the ground. The short stems emerge from a woody taproot and caudex unit and the plant form is no more than tall. The abundant tiny, sharp-pointed leaves are oppositely arranged and barely exceed long. The herbage is hairy in texture, the hairs short to long, woolly to cobwebby. The appearance of the plant is almost mosslike until blooming. The inflorescence is a solitary flower in shades of white, pink, or blue. It has a tubular throat about long spreading into a flat five-lobed coro ...
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Oxytropis Sericea
''Oxytropis sericea'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names white locoweed, white point-vetch, whitepoint crazyweed, and silky crazyweed. It is native to western North America from Yukon and British Columbia south through the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains.Esser, Lora L. 1993''Oxytropis sericea'' In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. Retrieved 12-07-2011. This plant is a perennial herb growing up to about in maximum height. It grows from a long taproot. The leaves are up to long. One plant may produce several flowering stalks, each with up to 27 flowers. The fruit is a legume pod up to long containing many hairy, leathery, kidney-shaped seeds. The tough seeds can remain dormant in a soil seed bank for a long time. This helps the species survive stress conditions such as cold, exposure, and desicc ...
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Lupinus Argenteus
''Lupinus argenteus'' is a species of lupine known by the common name silvery lupine. It is native to much of western North America from the southwestern Canadian provinces to the southwestern and midwestern United States, where it grows in several types of habitat, including sagebrush, grassland, and forests. This is a perennial herb growing erect to heights anywhere between and . It is sometimes silvery-hairy in texture and sometimes nearly hairless. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 9 leaflets each up to 6 centimetres long. They are narrow and linear in shape, under a centimetre wide. The inflorescence bears many flowers, sometimes arranged in whorls. The flower is to long and purple, blue, or whitish in color. The banner, or upper petal, of the flower may have a patch of white or yellow. The fruit is a hairy legume pod up to 3 centimeters long containing several beanlike seeds. The plant is an important food source for butterflies. It also attracts birds and hummingbird ...
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Lomatium Cous
''Lomatium cous'' (cous biscuitroot) is a perennial herb of the family Apiaceae. The root is prized as a food by the tribes of the southern plateau of the Pacific Northwest. Meriwether Lewis collected a specimen in 1806 while on his expedition.Schiemann, Donald Anthony. Wildflowers of Montana, page 174. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, 2005. It is called x̣áwš in the Sahaptin language, and qáamsit (when fresh) and qáaws (when peeled and dried) in the Nez Perce language Nez Perce, also spelled Nez Percé or called Nimipuutímt (alternatively spelled ''Nimiipuutímt'', ''Niimiipuutímt'', or ''Niimi'ipuutímt''), is a Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin (note the spellings ''-ian'' vs .... It is called shappelell by the Chinooks: "... and a kind of bisquit, which the natives make of roots called by them shappelell." -- Meriwether Lewis, Friday, January 9th, 1806. From The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark, Down the Columbia to Fo ...
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Koeleria Macrantha
''Koeleria macrantha'' is a species of grass known by the common name prairie Junegrass in North America and crested hair-grass in the UK. It is widespread across much of Eurasia and North America. It occurs in many habitat types, especially prairie. Description ''Koeleria macrantha'' is a short, tuft-forming perennial bunchgrass, reaching heights from . The leaves are basal and up to about long with a blue-green color. The inflorescence is nearly cylindrical and may taper somewhat toward the tip. It holds shiny tan spikelets which are sometimes tinted with purple, each about half a centimeter long. Its fruit is a grain that breaks once it has fully ripened. It is a good forage for many types of grazing animals. It is classified as a severe allergen in humans with grass allergy. Growing conditions and habitat Koeleria ''macrantha'' is a plant that prefers cooler seasons such as early spring or fall. It grows mostly in rocky or sandy, well-drained areas within forests or plains. ...
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Hymenoxys Richardsonii
''Hymenoxys richardsonii'', the pingue hymenoxys or pingue rubberweed, is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is widespread across the western United States and western Canada from Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas north as far as Alberta and Saskatchewan. ;Varieties *''Hymenoxys richardsonii'' var. ''floribunda'' (A.Gray) K.F.Parker – Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah *''Hymenoxys richardsonii'' var. ''richardsonii'' – Alberta, Saskatchewan, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming Uses Among the Zuni people of New Mexico, a poultice of the chewed root applied to sores and rashes, and an infusion Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping). An inf ... of the root is used for stomachache. References richardsonii Flora of Norther ...
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Hymenoxys Acaulis
''Tetraneuris acaulis'' is a North American species of flowering plants in the sunflower family.Tetraneuris acaulis'. ITIS.Tetraneuris acaulisLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center'', University of Texas.Hymenoxys acaulis'. ''The Jepson Manual, University of Calilfornia''Hymenoxys acaulis''. United States Geologic Survey, Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands.
Southwest Colorado Wildflowers.
Tetraneuris acaulis
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Haplopappus Acaulis
''Haplopappus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae found in South America, mostly restricted to the dry regions of the Southern Andes, Chilean Matorral, and Patagonia. Taxonomy Species Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: ; formerly included Many species once included in ''Haplopappus'' are now regarded as belonging to other genera: ''Acamptopappus Ageratina Aztecaster Benitoa Croptilon Ericameria Grindelia Gundlachia Haploesthes Hazardia Inulopsis Isocoma Leptostelma Llerasia Lorandersonia Machaeranthera Nestotus Noticastrum Oonopsis Oreochrysum Oreostemma Osbertia Pyrrocoma Rayjacksonia Stenotus Toiyabea Tonestus Xanthisma ''Xanthisma'', common name sleepy-daisy, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Erigeron Compositus
''Erigeron compositus'' is an Arctic and alpine species of fleabane in the family Asteraceae. Common names include dwarf mountain fleabane, cutleaf daisy, and trifid mountain fleabane. Range ''Erigeron compositus'' has been found in the Russian Far East (Wrangel Island and Chukotka), Alaska, Greenland, much of Canada (all three Arctic territories plus British Columbia, all three Prairie Provinces, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia), and the Western United States (from the Pacific Coast as far east as the Dakotas, Colorado, and New Mexico). Description ''Erigeron compositus'' is a perennial herb rarely more than tall, with a thick growth of basal leaves, the tips of which are divided. The plant produces a taproot and spreads by means of horizontal underground rhizomes. The leaves are often densely hairy but can range to fully glabrous. There is generally only one flower head per stem, each head with 20–60 white, pink or blue ray florets; these are sometimes small and easil ...
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Elymus Spicatus
''Pseudoroegneria spicata'' is a species of grass known by the common name bluebunch wheatgrass. This native western North American perennial bunchgrass is also known by the scientific synonyms ''Elymus spicatus'' and ''Agropyron spicatum''. The grass can be found in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from Alaska and Yukon south as far as Sonora and Nuevo León. Description Bluebunch wheatgrass can grow up to three feet tall. It can often be distinguished from other bunchgrasses by the awns on its seedheads which stand out at an angle nearly 90 degrees from the stem. It is often bluish. The roots of the grass have a waxy layer that helps it resist desiccation in dry soils. In areas with more moisture the grass may produce rhizomes. The relationship between the traits and climates of ''P. spicata'' is consistent with those of other grass species that also have a summer growing season. Populations of ''P. spicata'' from warm, arid environments are often smaller with earlier phe ...
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