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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 (579 words) - 17:51, 20 January 2010
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (612 words) - 21:06, 28 April 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
- 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
- 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
- today term NGOs — in the shape of the RSPB, National Trust and County Naturalists' Trusts (dating back to 1889, 1895 and 1912 respectively) — a long time...12 KB (1,600 words) - 07:44, 16 September 2007
- 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 (649 words) - 02:43, 21 January 2012
- 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
- 8-20; disk-flowers fertile, their tubular corollas 5- toothed.—About 13 W. American species. The species described below are diffuse, much-branched and about...4 KB (113 words) - 15:40, 12 July 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
- 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
- solitary on long peduncles, bracted at the base.—A genus of about 10 Trop. American climbers (monographed by Brand in Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 27, 1907)...5 KB (106 words) - 04:13, 27 November 2009
- 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
- western regions of the North American continent, from southern Alaska down through the Rocky Mountains, through Central America, to at least Andean Colombia...39 KB (4,853 words) - 15:42, 27 March 2010