Showing posts with label rarities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rarities. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2019

Myrio On Live Sedge

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Day 244: Beth Fallon, the Park's new Arnie (Plant Ecologist), got to meet Myrio today when she and I took a field trip to the site of...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

A Kink In Its Tail

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Day 242: One of the distinguishing features of Myriosclerotinia caricis-ampullaceae is a kink in the end of the stipe, and the stipe'...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Where Rarity Is Abundant

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Day 241: Forgive my enthusiasm, please, but after discovering a fungus which is rare world-wide not only as a species but as a genus, ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A Team Biota Day

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Day 257: Team Biota had a field day yesterday in two senses of the phrase. We spend 9.5 hours in a variety of habitats, including lowland...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Not Asparagus

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Day 210: Other than my usual meanderings-around, today was my first real field day (albeit rather damp) looking for rare plants this year...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Triteleia Hyacinthina, Fool's Onion

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Day 280: Although Triteleia hyacinthina has other common names ("White Brodiaea," "White Hyacinth"), none describes i...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Comarum Palustre, Purple Marshlocks

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Day 271: Rare in Mount Rainier National Park, Comarum palustre is a denizen of boggy or swampy areas. Formerly grouped with the Potenti...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Finding Myriosclerotinia Caricis-ampullaceae

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Day 253: In a paper published in Vienna in January 1996, Myriosclerotinia caricis-ampullaceae is referred to as "very rare," an...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Pilophorus Clavatus, Tapered Matchstick Lichen

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Day 15: How many times have I walked around the Trail of the Shadows, my eyes sweeping the surrounding area for rare and elusive species?...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The Icing On The Cake

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Day 259: Yesterday, I introduced my readers to two of the most common species of Paintbrush to be found in Mount Rainier National Park. ...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Cone Plant (Gnome Plant), Hemitomes Congestum

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Day 235: Rare in Mount Rainier National Park and observed by your narrator only two or three times previously, Hemitomes congestum (Gno...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Day Of The Trifidas

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Day 199: I couldn't resist the play on John Wyndham's apocalyptic novel, "Day of the Triffids." I think of the book eve...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Corallorhiza Trifida, Local Rarity

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Day 196: One of the most exciting moments in a naturalist's career is the discovery of a species they have not observed before. Follo...