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Quercus incana is a tree growing to about 10 meters (33 feet) in height, [4] with a maximum height around 15 m (49 ft). [3] The "national champion bluejack" was a specimen from Texas that was 15.5 m (51 ft) tall and 2.1 m (7 ft) in circumference, and had a crown spread of 17 m (56 ft). [3]
Vaccinium pallidum is a deciduous shrub, erect in stature but variable in height.It generally grows 23 to 51 centimeters (9 to 20 in) tall, but depending on environmental conditions it ranges from 8 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in height.
Common names it shares with other Proboscidea species include devil's claw and unicorn-plant. [4] Names more specific to the species include common devil's claw , ram's horn , [ 5 ] aphid trap , [ 4 ] Louisiana unicorn-plant , [ 1 ] purple-flowered devil's-claw , [ 6 ] goat's head , elephant tusks , [ 2 ] and martinoe (or martina).
Signed into law June 28, 2005, and effective August 8, 2005, Louisiana State Act No 159 found in, Louisiana RS 40:989.1, outlawed the cultivation, possession or sale of 40 named plants defined as hallucinogenic in the state of Louisiana, US. House Bill 173 of 2010 further restricted the sale and possession of herbs in the state.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Michael Coulon pulls Cuban bullrush from a patch of water hyacinths, Tuesday, July 23, in Turtle Bayou.
Canavalia napaliensis (MÄkaha Valley Jack-bean) Cardamine micranthera (small-anthered bittercress) Carex albida (white sedge) Carex lutea (golden sedge) Carex specuicola (Navajo sedge) Castilleja cinerea (ashgray Indian paintbrush) Castilleja grisea (San Clemente Island Indian paintbrush) Castilleja levisecta (golden paintbrush)
Iris giganticaerulea, the giant blue iris, is a species of iris, in the subgenus Limniris, in the series Hexagonae.It is a rhizomatous perennial, from northern America.It has long bright green leaves, very tall stems and one or two musky fragrant flowers in a range of blue shades (pale, bright, dark, lavender and violet) or rarely white.
All of the plants Lewis collected in the first months of the Expedition were cached near the Missouri River to be retrieved on the return journey. The cache was completely destroyed by Missouri flood waters. Other collections were lost in varying ways, and we now have only 237 plants Lewis collected, 226 of which are in the Philadelphia ...