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Sierra De La Laguna Pine–oak Forests
The Sierra de la Laguna pine–oak forests are a tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, subtropical coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion, ecoregion, found in the Sierra de la Laguna mountain range at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. It is found within Los Cabos Municipality and eastern La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur, La Paz Municipality of southern Baja California Sur state. Setting The ecoregion encompasses an area of . The pine–oak forests are found above in elevation, and are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sierra de la Laguna dry forests. The pine–oak forests have a unique and diverse flora and fauna, including 694 plant species, of which approximately 85 are endemic (ecology), endemic. Climate The higher elevation gives the ecoregion a subtropical to temperate climate, in contrast to the dry tropical climate of the lowlands. Rainfall is higher than the lower-elevation dry forests and deserts of the peninsula, averagin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical Realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate climate, temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Phytochorion, Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, Antarctic kingdom. The Neo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quercus Arizonica
''Quercus arizonica'', the Arizona white oak, is a North American tree species in the beech family. It is found in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Durango. Description The Arizona white oak is one of the largest southwestern oaks. This tree may grow to , with a trunk diameter of . It has stout branches and a spreading crown. The leaves are about long, thick, and evergreen. It grows very slowly once it has become mature, adding approximately of diameter per year. * Bark: color is light grayish. The bark is initially thin and lenticelled, but later becomes quite thick, with shallow fissures and scaly ridges. * Twig: medium-sized, fuzzy. The color can be light brown or reddish brown. Twigs have pointy and fat clusters of terminal buds. * Leaves: alternate, evergreen, simple, and oblong. The color is yellowish green or bluish green. Leaves are usually 1 to 3 in long. The margins are usually entire or toothed, and are rounded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypericum
''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hypericum'' species are regarded as invasive species and noxious weeds. All members of the genus may be referred to as St. John's wort, and some are known as goatweed. The white or pink flowered marsh St. John's worts of North America and eastern Asia are generally accepted as belonging to the separate genus ''Triadenum'' Raf. ''Hypericum'' is unusual for a genus of its size because a worldwide taxonomic monograph was produced for it by Norman Robson (botanist), Norman Robson (working at the Natural History Museum, London). Robson recognizes 36 sections within ''Hypericum''. Description ''Hypericum'' species are quite variable in habit, occurring as trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. Trees in the sense of single stem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbesina
''Verbesina'', many species of which have crownbeard as part of their common names, is a genus of flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae. It is a large genus of about 350 species. All of the species bear white or yellow flowers similar to small sunflowers. The name ''Verbesina'' very likely refers to the similarity of the foliage to that of the (unrelated) ''Verbena.'' ''Verbesina'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species. These include ''Schinia bina'', which has been recorded from '' V. encelioides'', and '' Schinia siren'' which feeds exclusively on that species. Pollen grains from eight of the nine species of ''Verbesina'' found in Brazil have been characterized as oblate-spheroidal, medium-sized, isopolar monads. They are 3-colplorate with a subtriangular amb, a small polar area, a long colpus, a lalongate endoaperture, a caveate exine and an echinate sexine. Selected species * ''Verbesina alternifolia'' * '' Verbesina auriculigera' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterotoma (plant)
''Lobelia'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . They are known generally as lobelias.''Lobelia''. USDA PLANTS. 
Description The genus ''Lobelia'' comprises a substantial number of large and small annual, perennial and shrubby species, hardy and tender, from a variety of habitats, in a range of colours. Many species ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimosa
''Mimosa'' is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. Species are native to the Americas, from North Dakota to northern Argentina, and to eastern Africa (Tanzania, Mozambique, and Madagascar) as well as the Indian subcontinent and Indochina. The generic name is derived from the Greek word (''mimos''), 'actor' or 'mime', and the feminine suffix -''osa'', 'resembling', suggesting its 'sensitive leaves' which seem to 'mimic conscious life'. Two species in the genus are especially notable. One is '' Mimosa pudica'', commonly known as touch-me-not, which folds its leaves when touched or exposed to heat. It is native to southern Central and South America but is widely cultivated elsewhere for its curiosity value, both as a houseplant in temperate areas, and outdoors in the tropics. Outdoor cultivation has led to weedy invasion in some areas, notably Hawaii. The other is '' Mimosa tenuiflora'', which is best known for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calliandra
''Calliandra'' is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It contains about 140 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Description The genus comprises herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, growing tall, with bipinnate leaves. The flowers are produced in cylindrical or globose inflorescences and have numerous long slender stamens which give rise to the common names powder-puff, powder puff plant, and fairy duster. These plants flower all year round, but the best blooming is in spring and summer. They can be easily pruned. Calliandra are often fed on by caterpillars, such as the larvae of statira sulphur (''Aphrissa statira''). It is available in many vibrant colours such as pink, white, etc. Species The following is an alphabetical listing of the 149 species in the genus ''Genus'' that are accepted by Plants of the World Online * '' Callian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolina Beldingii
''Nolina beldingii'' is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae known commonly as the Cape nolina or Belding's beargrass. It is an arborescent monocot growing up to high, with fissured bark on a trunk topped with leaf rosettes. The narrow leaves are up to long, and are used as thatching by local peoples. This species is endemic to Baja California Sur in Mexico, where it grows only in the highest reaches of the Sierra de la Laguna. It is found primarily in oak forests at elevations over along rocky granite outcrops. Description This is an arborescent species of ''Nolina'' that grows in height with a trunk in diameter. The bark is fissured, forming rectangular blocks long with the ridges deep. The bark is colored gray but turns maroon with age. Topping the apex of the trunk(s) are 1 to 26 rosettes of leaves, each rosette in diameter. The rosettes retain persistent old leaves along the trunks. The leaves themselves are long and narrow, linear in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbutus
''Arbutus'' is a genus of 12 accepted speciesAct. Bot. Mex no.99 Pátzcuaro abr. 2012.''Arbutus bicolor''/ref> of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, the Canary Islands and North America, and commonly called madrones or strawberry trees. The name ''Arbutus'' was taken by taxonomists from Latin, where it referred to the species now designated ''Arbutus unedo''. Description ''Arbutus'' are small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red Berry (botany), berries.Mabberley, D. J. 1997. ''The plant book: A portable dictionary of the vascular plants''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Fruit development is delayed for about five months after pollination, so that flowers appear while the previous year's fruit are ripening. Peak flowering for the genus is in April with peak fruiting in October. History The smooth wood of the tree is mentioned by Theophrastus in his Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quercus Tuberculata
''Quercus tuberculata'' is a species of oak tree which is native to mountains of northeastern and northwestern Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Michoacán, Durango, and Nuevo León).McVaugh, Rogers. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12: 86-88 in English, line drawing on page 87 It is placed in ''Quercus'' section ''Quercus''. Description ''Quercus tuberculata'' is a deciduous tree up to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The |
Pinus Lagunae
''Pinus cembroides'', also known as pinyon pine, Mexican pinyon, Mexican nut pine, and Mexican stone pine, is a pine in the pinyon pine group. It is a small pine growing to about with a trunk diameter of up to . It is native to western North America. It grows in areas with low levels of rainfall and its range extends southwards from Arizona, Texas and New Mexico in the United States into Mexico. It typically grows at altitudes between . The seeds are large and form part of the diet of the Mexican jay and Abert's squirrel. They are also collected for human consumption, being the most widely used pine nut in Mexico. Description ''Pinus cembroides'' is a small to medium-size tree, reaching tall and with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is dark brown, thick and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk. The leaves ('needles') are in mixed pairs and threes, slender, to long, and dull yellowish green, with stomata on both inner and outer surfaces. The cones are globose, to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddleia
''Buddleja'' (; ''Buddleia''; also historically given as ''Buddlea'') is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemicity, endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and Rector (ecclesiastical), rector, at the suggestion of William Houstoun (botanist), William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja (Buddleja americana, ''B. americana'') to England from the Caribbean about 15 years after Buddle's death. ''Buddleja'' species, especially ''Buddleja davidii'' and interspecific hybrids, are commonly known as butterfly bushes and are frequently cultivated as garden shrubs. ''Buddleja davidii'' has become an invasive species in both Europe and North America. Nomenclature The botanic name has been the source of some confusion. By modern practice of botanical Latin, the spelling of a generic nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
