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Shepherdia
''Shepherdia'', commonly called buffaloberry or bullberry, is a genus of small shrubs in the Elaeagnaceae family. The plants are native to northern and western North America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers. ''Shepherdia'' is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. Species The genus has three living species: *'' Shepherdia argentea'' - silver buffaloberry *'' Shepherdia canadensis'' - Canada buffaloberry *'' Shepherdia rotundifolia'' - roundleaf buffaloberry, endemic to southern Utah and northern Arizona An additional extinct species is also placed in the genus: *†'' Shepherdia weaveri'' - Paleocene/Eocene Kachemak Bay, Alaska Fruit The berry is recognizable by being a dark shade of red, with little white dots on them. They are rough to the touch, and are found on both trees and shrubs. Wildlife The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherdia Argentea
''Shepherdia argentea'', commonly called silver buffaloberry, bull berry, or thorny buffaloberry, is a species of ''Shepherdia'' in the Oleaster family. It is native to central and western North America. Description ''Shepherdia argentea'' is a deciduous shrub growing from tall. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs (rarely alternately arranged), long, oval with a rounded apex, green with a covering of fine silvery, silky hairs, more thickly silvery below than above. The flowers are pale yellow, with four sepals but no petals. The fruit is a bright red fleshy drupe 5 mm in diameter; it is edible but with a rather bitter taste.Jepson Flora''Shepherdia argentea''/ref> Two cultivars, 'Xanthocarpa' and 'Goldeneye', form yellow fruit. Taxonomy The Latin specific epithet ''argentea'' refers to the silver color of the plant's leaves and stems. Distribution and habitat ''Shepherdia argentea'' is native to the western and central parts of Canada and North America, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherdia Canadensis
''Shepherdia canadensis'', commonly called Canada buffaloberry, russet buffaloberry, soopolallie, soapberry, or foamberry (Ktunaxa: ') is one of a small number of shrubs of the genus ''Shepherdia'' that bears edible berries. Description The plant is a deciduous shrub, growing to a maximum of . The leaves are long, green above, and whitish and brownish below. The fruit is usually red, but one variety has yellow berries. The berries have a bitter taste. It is a non-legume nitrogen fixer. Etymology The common name of the plant in British Columbia is "soopolallie", a word derived from the historic Chinook Jargon trading language spoken in the North American Pacific Northwest in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The name is a composite of the Chinook words "soop" (soap) and "olallie" (berry).Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson, M. Terry Thompson, and Annie Z. York. 1990. Thompson Ethnobotany. Royal British Columbia Museum: Victoria. pp. 209-11. Distribution and habit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherdia Weaveri
''Shepherdia'', commonly called buffaloberry or bullberry, is a genus of small shrubs in the Elaeagnaceae family. The plants are native to northern and western North America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers. ''Shepherdia'' is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. Species The genus has three living species: *''Shepherdia argentea'' - silver buffaloberry *''Shepherdia canadensis'' - Canada buffaloberry *'' Shepherdia rotundifolia'' - roundleaf buffaloberry, endemic to southern Utah and northern Arizona An additional extinct species is also placed in the genus: *†'' Shepherdia weaveri'' - Paleocene/Eocene Kachemak Bay, Alaska Fruit The berry is recognizable by being a dark shade of red, with little white dots on them. They are rough to the touch, and are found on both trees and shrubs. Wildlife The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherdia
''Shepherdia'', commonly called buffaloberry or bullberry, is a genus of small shrubs in the Elaeagnaceae family. The plants are native to northern and western North America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers. ''Shepherdia'' is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. Species The genus has three living species: *'' Shepherdia argentea'' - silver buffaloberry *'' Shepherdia canadensis'' - Canada buffaloberry *'' Shepherdia rotundifolia'' - roundleaf buffaloberry, endemic to southern Utah and northern Arizona An additional extinct species is also placed in the genus: *†'' Shepherdia weaveri'' - Paleocene/Eocene Kachemak Bay, Alaska Fruit The berry is recognizable by being a dark shade of red, with little white dots on them. They are rough to the touch, and are found on both trees and shrubs. Wildlife The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherdia Rotundifolia
''Shepherdia rotundifolia'', the roundleaf buffaloberry or silverleaf, is a evergreen shrub in the oleaster family (Elaeagnaceae) that grows only in the Colorado Plateau (endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...) of the southwestern United States. The common name comes from western settlers using the cooked berries in a sauce for eating cooked buffalo meat. Leaves and stems "Rotundifolia" is for the oval or egg-shaped leaves, which can vary to being lance shaped. They are long, silvery green on top (hence the other common name), and hairy and pale on the bottom. Inflorescence and fruit Flowers open from May to June and are yellowish. They are produced singly or in a cluster from leaf axils. Fruits are elliptical, with star-shaped hairs. Habitat and rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeagnaceae
The Elaeagnaceae are a plant family, the oleaster family, of the order Rosales comprising small trees and shrubs, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical Asia and Australia. The family has about 60 species in three genera. They are commonly thorny, with simple leaves often coated with tiny scales or hairs. Most of the species are xerophytes (found in dry habitats); several are also halophytes, tolerating high levels of soil salinity. The Elaeagnaceae often harbor nitrogen-fixing actinomycetes of the genus '' Frankia'' in root nodules, making them useful for soil reclamation. This characteristic, together with their production of plentiful seeds, often results in the Elaeagnaceae being regarded as weeds. The stems and leaves are covered with silvery brown or golden hairs which are either peltate or scaly. ''Shepherdia'' and ''Hippophae'' are unisexual, the female and male borne on different plants (dioecious). There are no petals, the perian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-legume Nitrogen Fixer
Actinorhizal plants are a group of angiosperms characterized by their ability to form a symbiosis with the nitrogen fixing actinomycetota ''Frankia''. This association leads to the formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules. Actinorhizal plants are distributed within three clades, and are characterized by nitrogen fixation. They are distributed globally, and are pioneer species in nitrogen-poor environments. Their symbiotic relationships with Frankia evolved independently over time, and the symbiosis occurs in the root nodule infection site. Classification Actinorhizal plants are dicotyledons distributed within 3 orders, 8 families and 26 genera, of the angiosperm clade. All nitrogen fixing plants are classified under the "Nitrogen-Fixing Clade", which consists of the three actinorhizal plant orders, as well as the order fabales. The most well-known nitrogen fixing plants are the legumes, but they are not classified as actinorhizal plants. The actinorhizal species are either tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ectropis Crepuscularia
The engrailed and small engrailed (''Ectropis crepuscularia'') are moths of the family Geometridae found from the British Isles through central and eastern Europe to the Russian Far East and Kazakhstan. The western Mediterranean and Asia Minor and the Caucasus represent the southern limit of the distribution (with the Balkan countries). In the north, the distribution area ends at the Arctic Circle. It also occurs in North America. Debate exists as to whether they make up one species, or whether ''E. crepuscularia'' actually refers only to the small engrailed, with the engrailed proper being separable as ''E. bistortata''. The ground colour of the wings is buff or grey, variably marked with darker fascia and a pale postdiscal crossline. The darker markings are not usually as strong as in the rather similar willow beauty. Melanic forms occur fairly frequently. The wingspan is . One or two broods are produced each year. In the British Isles, the adults can be seen at any time be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleophora Elaeagnisella
The speckled casebearer moth (''Coleophora elaeagnisella'') is a species of moth in the family Coleophoridae. It is found in North America, from the Great Lakes northward, including Michigan and Ontario. The larvae feed on the leaves of ''Elaeagnus'', ''Hippophae'' and ''Shepherdia ''Shepherdia'', commonly called buffaloberry or bullberry, is a genus of small shrubs in the Elaeagnaceae family. The plants are native to northern and western North America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers. ''Shepherdia'' is dioecious, wi ...'' species. They create a pistol-shaped case. References elaeagnisella Moths described in 1908 Moths of North America {{Coleophoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841. Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire and spent some years as an apprentice printer in England. Soon after going to the United States he met professor Benjamin Smith Barton in Philadelphia. Barton encouraged his strong interest in natural history. Early explorations in the United States In 1810 he travelled to the Great Lakes and in 1811 travelled on the Astor Expedition led by William Price Hunt on behalf of John Jacob Astor up the Missouri River. Nuttall was accompanied by the English botanist John Bradbury, who was collecting plants on behalf of Liverpool botanical gardens. Nuttall and Bradbury left the party at the trading post with the Arikara Indians in South Dakota, and continued farther upriver with Ramsay Crooks. In August they returned to the Arikara post and jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic rank, superfamilies, and one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world. Lepidopteran species are characterized by more than three derived features. The most apparent is the presence of scale (anatomy), scales that cover the torso, bodies, large triangular Insect wing, wings, and a proboscis for siphoning nectars. The scales are modified, flattened "hairs", and give butterflies and moths their wide variety of colors and patterns. Almost all species have some form of membranous wings, except for a few that have reduced wings or are wingless. Mating and the laying of eggs is normally performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosales Genera
Rosales (, ) are an order of flowering plants. Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Rosales". At: Trees At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see ''External links'' below) Well-known members of Rosales include: roses, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, apples and pears, plums, peaches and apricots, almonds, rowan and hawthorn, jujube, elms, banyans, figs, mulberries, breadfruit, nettles, hops, and cannabis. Rosales contain about 7,700 species, distributed into nine families and about 260 genera. Their type family is the rose family, Rosaceae. The largest families are Rosaceae (91/4828) and Urticaceae (53/2625). Taxonomy The order Rosales is strongly supported as monophyletic in phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences, such as those carried out by members of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.Walter S. Judd, Christopher S. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Peter F. Stevens, and Michael J. Donoghue. 2008. ''Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
