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2 weeks in the city - time to miss my garden.
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Awkward Botanical Sketches #5: Leaves of Yellowstone Edition
Awkward Botanical Sketches #5: Leaves of Yellowstone Edition
Earlier this month, I met up with Eric LoPresti and others at Yellowstone National Park to help take a census of Abronia ammophila, a rare plant endemic to the park and commonly referred to as Yellowstone sand verbena. Abronia (a.k.a. the sand-verbenas) is a small genus of plants in the family Nyctaginaceae that is native to western North America. Several species in the genus have fairly limited…