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- Aldo Leopold (category American naturalists)served for 19 years in the United States Forest Service, working in the American Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona) until he was transferred in 1924 to...8 KB (1,047 words) - 04:30, 15 September 2007
- Carl Linnaeus after Dr Alexander Garden (1730-1791), Scottish-born American naturalist. They are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to 1-15 m tall...12 KB (571 words) - 17:51, 20 January 2010
- Sunflower (category Crops originating from the Americas)The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas in the family Asteraceae, with a large flowering head (inflorescence). The...15 KB (1,158 words) - 12:19, 5 August 2009
- Torrey Botanical Club (1904-1913); see also Science, June, 1907, and American Naturalist, April, 1910. Violets are easily grown if an effort is made to imitate...8 KB (78 words) - 12:53, 29 October 2009
- Cyclopedia of Horticulture Brickellia (Dr. John Brickell, an early American naturalist). Coleosanthus, Cass. Composite. About 40 species of herbs or small...1 KB (56 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2010
- Oyster-plant and Flowering Inch Plant. The generic name honours the English naturalists John Tradescant the Elder (ca. 1570-1638) and John Tradescant the Younger...10 KB (554 words) - 21:06, 28 April 2010
- Thompson, S.I. (1977) Women, Horticulture, and Society in Tropical America. American Anthropologist, N.S., 79: 908-910...139 KB (656 words) - 22:18, 11 January 2010
- Extinctions on Islands Worldwide: A Comparative Study of Plants and Birds. American Naturalist 160: 766-783. Silver Botts, P., B. A. Patterson, and D. Schlosser...45 KB (6,774 words) - 12:29, 14 May 2007
- ornament, but known mostly from the Barbados cherry, cultivated in the American tropics. Leaves opposite, short-stalked, glabrous or tomentose, entire...2 KB (56 words) - 11:11, 29 December 2009
- Tillandsioideae. The genus name is for Anastasio Guzman, Spanish pharmacist and naturalist. Several species of this genus are cultivated as indoor and outdoor garden...12 KB (1,235 words) - 17:08, 11 August 2010
- restriction of carnivorous plants to sunny, moist, nutrient-poor habitats". American Naturalist 124: 479-497. http://www.jstor.org/view/00030147/di006263/00p0048e/0...58 KB (7,502 words) - 12:29, 8 April 2007
- British gardeners adopted goldenrod long before Americans. Goldenrod only began to gain some acceptance in American gardening (other than wildflower gardening)...17 KB (1,974 words) - 05:34, 16 October 2007
- in China, where over 100 species occur; by comparison, Europe and North America have only about 20 native species each. Widely known species include Lonicera...25 KB (366 words) - 01:58, 5 March 2015
- /ˌsærəˈsiːniə/ or /ˌsærəˈsɛniə/) is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also...15 KB (770 words) - 00:01, 19 May 2010
- flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. Except for two or three odd South American species, all are native to islands of the Caribbean. The genus is classified...4 KB (217 words) - 15:06, 29 March 2011
- Africa. It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa and tropical Asia. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies...8 KB (618 words) - 02:43, 21 January 2012
- Central America Myrmecophila albopurpurea [Strachan ex Fawcett], Grand Cayman Island Myrmecophila exaltata (Kraenzl.) G.C. Kenn., Central America Myrmecophilia...4 KB (194 words) - 13:26, 22 May 2010
- 1958, Irish Naturalists' Journal 13: 18 - 19. De Valéra, M. 1960. Interesting seaweeds from the shores of the Burren. Irish Naturalists' Journal. 13:...44 KB (14,701 words) - 04:07, 15 September 2007
- classification comes from European and North American ecologists, and they have fundamentally different approaches. In North America, vegetation types are based on a...23 KB (3,164 words) - 04:10, 6 April 2007
- Cyclopedia of Horticulture Thalia (named after Johann Thalius, a German naturalist; died 1588). Marantaceae. Perennial marsh or aquatic herbs, some of them...2 KB (118 words) - 20:48, 22 April 2010