He was born on May 23,, in Rashult in Southern Sweden and he showed a deep love and fascination for plants right from a very early age. He joined the University of Lund to study medicine in , and a year later, he transferred to the University of Uppsala, the most prestigious university in Sweden, where he spent most of his time collecting and studying plants, his true love, as at that time, training in botany was part of the medical curriculum and every doctor had to prepare and prescribe drugs derived from medicinal plants.
Linnaeus mounted a botanical and ethnographical expedition to Lapland in and to central Sweden in A year later in , he went to the Netherlands and promptly finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk. Later, he enrolled in the University of Leiden for further studies and that same year, he published the first edition of his classification of living things, the Systerna Naturae. In , he returned back to Sweden where he practiced medicine specializing in the treatment of syphilis and lectured in Stockholm, before being awarded a professorship at Uppsala in Inspired by him, many of his students made exploration voyages to different parts of the world such as Australia, Europe, north-eastern American colonies, Japan, South America, south-east Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
In the meantime, Linnaeus continued to revise his Systema Naturae, which grew to a multi- volume work, as his concepts were modified and as more and more plant and animal specimens were sent to him from different parts of the world by his students and other European botanists. In , he bought the manor estate of Hammarby, outside Uppsala, where he built a small museum for his extensive personal collections and in , he was granted nobility, and became Carl von Linne.
Linnaeus died in and his son, also named Carl, succeeded him as a professor at Uppsala. But he never proved to be noteworthy as a botanist. James L. Reveal of the University of Maryland personal communication, , the swollen stem of E.
Although some insects utilize the swollen stem as a larder, the inflation is NOT caused by the larval feeding of gall insects. In fact, during very dry years many populations of var. In northeastern Utah and adjacent Colorado, another species E. Go to the following link and scroll down. Unabridged note from revised Jepson Manual: Degree of stem inflation correlated positively with CO 2 accumulation, and not correlated with insect activity despite ongoing reports to the contrary.
The small fruits silicles of "spectacle pod" Dithyrea californica resemble miniature eye glasses. This wildflower is common in sandy areas of the Colorado Desert. The inflated flower stalks of "desert candle" Caulanthus inflatus appear on open flats and among shrubs in the Mojave Desert. Herniaria Herniaria hirsuta is a small annual herb in the pink family Caryophyllaceae. Although native to Europe, it is a occasionally naturalized in disturbed areas of California.
Inconspicuous apetalous flowers are produced in the leaf axils. The generic name is derived from the Latin word for rupture, and herbs of this genus were apparently used as a treatment for hernias. Dennis explains that Asa Gray, who later became a pre-eminent botanist at Harvard University, spent the rest of his adult life searching for the place where Michaux found Shortia.
The flowers of the Oconee bell are beautiful, but they are small and near the ground. To photograph them, you need to get low. They also bloom for the most part only in March. Dennis uses his ever-present hiking staff to point out a colony of Oconee bells closeup above springing up near the base of a hardwood tree near a streambed -- exactly the habitat you should keep your eyes peeled for when searching for them.
Oconee bells are such a famous landmark in Jocassee Gorges, it has a festival named after it! Piper taught botany and zoology. In he was appointed to the Department of Agriculture where he was in charge of the Grass Herbarium and Forage Crop Investigations. The orchid genus Piperia is named after him. See also Charles Vancouver Piper Papers. Rolla Kent Beattie Papers.
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Published: Look for plants with names including Douglas, douglasii. Look for plants with names including Howell, howellii. Look for plants with names including Pursh, purshii. Columbia Basin: Salix scouleriana Scouler willow. Columbia Basin: Grayia spinosa spiny hopsage. Published: Look for plants with names including Wyeth, Wyethia , wyethii. Columbia Basin: Lupinus wyethii Wyeth's lupine.
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