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no seeds no fruits no flowers no problem friday april 8 2016 desert flowers the last two posts have focused on desert ferns but it s only fair to share some photos of the incredible flowers we saw too thanks to above average rainfall this spring the desert was truly in bloom and we caught the end of a major flowering of cacti and desert annuals here is a small sampling of what we saw first an assortment of cacti next a classic feature of the sonoran and other southern deserts ocotillo fouquieria splendens a beautiful yucca and a few other flowers phoradendron californicum a mistletoe member of malvaceae the cotton family palafoxia sp member of the sunflower family asteraceae funastrum cynanchoides a vining milkweed epipactis gigantea an orchid posted by emily at 6 30 pm no comments labels angiosperms desert non fern monday april 4 2016 desert ferns not myriopteris my last post focused on several species of myriopteris ferns we found in the anza borrego desert region of southern california in addition we found a few other species of ferns that also deserve highlighting these included pellaea mucronata pentagramma triangularis and adiantum capillus veneris all members of the family pteridaceae like myriopteris adiantum was a particularly pleasant surprise because it is not a particularly desert adapted fern at all we found it at the end of a long hike up hellhole canyon in anza borrego desert park at the very aptly named maidenhair falls clearly the ferns survive in that location thanks to the waterfall pellaea mucronata pellaea mucronata and myriopteris viscida pentagramma triangularis pentagramma triangularis adiantum capillus veneris adiantum capillus veneris last but not least we found a signature desert lycophyte selaginella eremophila this one is nice and green probably thanks to some recent rains that brought it back to life many selaginella species are resurrection plants able to dry out completely and rehydrate quickly when water becomes available again most of the ones we saw were brown and crispy this one was a lucky find i previously blogged about selaginella and their resurrection abilities here selaginella eremophila posted by emily at 12 00 pm no comments labels cool ferns desert tuesday march 29 2016 desert ferns myriopteris i spent most of last week in the desert southwest of the u s visiting anza borrego desert state park in southern california i went as part of a desert ecology course offered through the uw madison botany department my phd alma mater and led by my phd advisor tom givnish and the department s new plant physiological ecologist kate mcculloh we spent the first part of the week exploring anza borrego and the borrego springs area taking field trips as far away as the salton sea joshua tree national park and mt san jacinto you ve probably heard that this year is an el niño year which has resulted in excess rainfall in this part of the country and a rare superbloom in areas like death valley the flowers were also out in full force in the anza borrego area and we had a wonderful time learning to identify the desert annuals that were in bloom and thinking about their ecology and relation to the landscape but of course for me there was another highlight the ferns there is actually a large radiation of ferns in the desert southwest with a suite of adaptations for living in this often punishing environment we managed to find six species of ferns during our few days there which isn t a bad haul three of the species we found belong to the genus myriopteris a classic xeric adapted group of ferns in the family pteridaceae many of the members of this genus formerly belonged to the genus cheilanthes but a beautiful recent study by my fern friend amanda grusz currently a postdoc at the smithsonian institution revealed that the ferns now called myriopteris all form a clade and should therefore be named accordingly you can find amanda s great paper on the evolution of this genus here the three species we found are myriopteris covillei m parryi and m viscida in the photos below you can see some of these ferns adaptations for desert living including small stature and being coated with a dense layer of hairs and or scales to slow water loss they also tend to live in rocky cracks and crevices out of direct sunlight l to r m parryi m covillei m viscida myriopteris viscida myriopteris covillei myriopteris covillei myriopteris covillei myriopteris covillei the m covillei pictured above were found hiding out under these huge rock formations in joshua tree myriopteris parryi myriopteris parryi myriopteris parryi myriopteris parryi myriopteris parryi the desert just feet away from this population of m parryi posted by emily at 8 05 pm no comments labels cool ferns desert monday december 7 2015 pine rocklands fungi we took another trip to southern florida to visit the pine rocklands this weekend while we saw many beautiful plants which is of course the purpose of our collecting visits i wanted to highlight some really beautiful fungi that we came across one morning it had rained heavily the night before and the palmetto trunks must be loaded with fungi spores that exploded with growth after the water came through and one of my favorite pine rockland ferns anemia adiantifolia last but not least two beautiful gulf fritillary butterflies mating posted by emily at 6 40 pm no comments labels non fern sunday november 15 2015 fern springs hammock i finally took a field trip this weekend to a site i ve long wanted to visit fern hammock springs part of the juniper springs recreation area in ocala national forest south of gainesville the site lived up to its name with quite a few fern species including several that are endemic to the southeastern us but that i don t see often dryopteris ludoviciana is also known as the southern shield fern it has one of the narrowest ranges of ferns in the genus dryopteris and is endemic only to florida and parts of other southeastern states dryopteris ludoviciana dryopteris ludoviciana vittaria lineata lygodium japonicum is a vining fern that s invasive in the us it was introduced from asia several decades ago and there are places where it and another invasive lygodium l microphyllum can be extremely intrusive and damaging weeds lygodium japonicum lygodium japonicum hole left behind by a tree probably a palm posted by emily at 7 33 pm no comments labels cool ferns fern places older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me emily i am a plant evolutionary biologist and assistant professor of plant systematics in the department of biology at the university of florida i research reticulate evolutionary processes including hybridization and polyploidy and their effects on plant systematics genomics and physiological ecology i m particularly interested in the seed free vascular plants ferns and lycophytes view my complete profile popular posts selaginella i often post about non ferns here especially if i have particularly nice flowering plant photos i d like to share but today we shift t woodwardia fimbriata apologies for my lack of posting in the past few months but it s spring now and i just took a lovely trip to california to visi edible ostrich ferns as ferns start to pop up in the spring one thing on many people s minds is eating them for those interested parties living in the midw fern rap several of my fellow tas in the botany department are teaching introductory biology this semester a giant 1 000 student mega class one of neochrome evolution in ferns photo by fay wei li via phys org some very exciting new research on fern evolution was just published in the proceedings of the nationa links american fern society flora of north america hardy fern library uw madison botany department pteridophytes of wisconsin blogs flora and fauna of appalachia canary islands gr 131 trail 4 months ago the phytophactor friday fabulous flower bottle brush buckeye 2 years ago moss plants and more bryophytes outdoors 10 years ago botany photo of the day stellarioides tenuifolia 10 years ago evolution of plants a desert herbarium 12 years ago la selva s fern video blog fern hybrids adiantum maidenhair example with robbin c moran 14 years ago the fenlandwalker countryside blog blog archive 2016 3 april 2 desert flowers desert ferns not myriopteris march 1 2015 15 december 1 november 1 september 5 july 1 june 4 may 1 february 1 january 1 2014 26 november 1 october 1 september 1 august 3 july 4 april 7 march 5 february 3 january 1 2013 9 november 2 october 1 august 3 july 1 march 1 february 1 2012 8 november 6 october 1 april 1 2011 28 november 1 october 2 september 4 august 6 july 3 june 7 may 4 march 1 2010 23 december 1 november 1 october 1 september 1 august 4 july 3 june 5 may 4 march 1 february 2 2009 29 december 1 november 4 october 2 september 4 august 6 july 5 june 2 may 1 march 2 february 2 2008 47 december 1 october 3 september 2 august 4 july 5 june 9 may 7 april 7 march 5 february 2 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