Features and Recent Additions

Recent Additions to this Web Site

1) Winter of 2011: All plant names on this web site are now based on
John Kartesz's nationally recognized work,
The Synthesis of the North American Flora.
These names are in bold.
Alternate scientific names (synonyms) are not bold.

2) Fall/winter of 2011: You can now search and browse this site by family name. A descriptions of each family is included on the family page.

3) Descriptions of two new species that
Betty and I discovered were published in 2011.

Packera mancosana

and

Ipomopsis ramosa

4) Summer of 2011: New and updated Plant Lists for
Trails in the Four Corners States:
Lake Hope
Placer Gulch Alpine
Lone Mesa State Park
Opal Lake
Lizard Head
Five Springs Farm

5 ) Click below for 2011 photographs of plants new to this web site.

May, 2011

Descurainia incana
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia
Brickellia oblongifolia variety linifolia
Astragalus lentiginosus variety palans
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Cardaria chalepensis

June, 2011

Astragalus tenellus
Scorzonera laciniata
Acosta diffusa (Centaurea diffusa)

July, 2011

Ipomopsis ramosa
Physaria scrotiformis
Oxytropis deflexa variety foliolosa
Besseya alpina

August, 2011

Botrychium lanceolatum
Erigeron subtrinervis
Lomatium minimum
Spergularia rubra
Botrychium hesperium
Botrychium neolunaria

September, 2011

Clinopodium vulgare
Commelina dianthifolia
Artemisia carruthii

October, 2011

Eriogonum arcuatum
Eriogonum jamesii

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