Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist Andrea Cesalpino was born #OTD in 1524.
"De Plantis Libri XVI" (1583), is one of the earliest systematic treatises on plants. This book laid the groundwork for modern botanical classification. He organized plants based on their fruits and seeds rather than their medicinal properties, which was the common practice at the time. This method was a precursor to the binomial nomenclature system later developed by Carl Linnaeus.
"Subramaniam stresses it is not that non-native species can’t, in some cases, go on to be real concerns. (...) “Instead of just blaming the plant and telling the story of the invading foreigners coming to take over, let’s retell it and hold human hubris to account,” she says.
Her takeaway message when it comes to plant science: “Botany, like everything, is political. Question received wisdom.""
#YellowRattle is used proactively to create & restore wildflower meadows, where it aids #biodiversity by suppressing dominant grasses & recycling of #soil nutrients. This improves chances of other species of wildflowers becoming established.
Does anyone know of a website where you can find centers of origin for a plant species as well as what the original growing conditions there were (geology, soils, sun/shade, humidity, temp)? #Botany@plantscience
Possibly the looniest native columbine there is: Golden columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha). Those ridiculously long spurs make the flowers look like little spaceships.
This columbine is found in the US southwest from Arizona to Texas, as well as in northwestern Mexico. While the Pacific Northwest has its own native yellow columbine (A. flavescens), its flowers are nowhere near as spectacular.
A genuine wildflower has appeared in our "wildflower" garden patch. We seeded a bit of strimmed-to-the-roots lawn a few years ago with a local mix of seeds. It looked ok, but we gave up. We've left it alone again this year and a Bulbous Buttercup has appeared, which was not in the original mix. So it got here on it's own, so a wild flower. The other "wildflowers" that came from the mix are not, because we planted them. #Nature#Botany#Wildflower