What Zone is Eastern NC: Understanding the Climate Zones in North Carolina Eastern North Carolina is a region of the state that is often the subject of confusion when it comes to its time zone. Many people 7 Min Reading Tropical Trees Are There Palm Trees in New Mexico? Exploring the State...
Native plants, those that have evolved and thrived in a region for thousands of years, stand out from their non-native counterparts with deep local roots — literally and figuratively! They’re the low-maintenance friends of your garden, requiring less water and care thanks to their natural re...
In honor of NC Native Plants Week, I am featuring today another favorite wildflower of mine, Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). It is one of the first available nectar sources for returningRuby-throated Hummingbirdsin early spring. Long-tongued bees, butterflies, and hawk moths are also ...
The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt conducted an expedition through the American continent, alongside Aimé Bonpland, from 1799 to 1804. Before finally returning to Europe, they decided to take a side trip to the USA between May 20 and July 7, 1
The purpose of this study was to gather ethnopharmacological information on plants used by the pastorals of southeastern Iran. The relationships between ecological value of the plant species and ethnobotanical indices were investigated. The loss of medic
All other mother plants in the study were heterozygous at all five loci (data not shown). Most offspring of the apomictic R. armeniacus differed from the mother plant at zero or one loci (Figure 4b), whereas most offspring of R. pensilvanicus differed from the mother plant at two or ...
New World Old World Columbian Exchange Crash Course Video https://youtu.be/HQPA5oNpfM4 Columbian Exchange? The global transfer of food, plants, animals, and disease occurring after the age of exploration initiated by the voyages of Columbus. These worlds had never come into contact. ...
The objectives of the NC-7 (North Central project number 7) Regional Ornamental Plant Trials are to assess plant performance across a broad range of environments and climatic extremes and expand the range of useful landscape plants, while placing emphasis on detailed, long-term evaluations. The ...
(Supplementary Fig.2). Through taxonomic assignment of sequencing reads using Kraken229, we detected the presence of at least 30 viral families, 53% of which primarily infect non-mammalian hosts such as plants, insects and bacteria (Supplementary Fig.3a). In addition, the total relative ...
Moreover, natural enemies may not co-migrate with introduced non-native species when these plants expand their ranges25. Therefore, an invasive species may invest more in its growth and competitive ability rather than defence due to lack of enemies in the introduced regions26 (i.e., the ...