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Trillium undulatum, commonly called painted trillium, painted lady (not to be confused with the painted lady butterfly), or trille ondulé in French, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the bunchflower family Melanthiaceae. It is also known as smiling wake robin or striped wake-robin.
Adapted to the desert environment, Selaginella lepidophylla can survive without water for several years, drying up until it retains only 3% of its mass. The plant can live and reproduce in arid regions for long periods of time. When living conditions become too difficult, the plant's survival mechanism allows it to dry out gradually. Its leaves ...
Australian painted lady Victoria, Australia Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Vanessa Species: V. kershawi Binomial name Vanessa kershawi (McCoy, 1868) Synonyms Cynthia kershawi McCoy, 1868 Vanessa cardui kershawi The Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) is a species of butterfly ...
Wastewater treatment plants play a major role, Ruyle said. They receive PFAS-contaminated water from homes and industry and about 50% of drinking water plants in the US are downstream from one of ...
Wing scales. Male and female. Upperside. Ground-colour reddish-ochreous, basal areas olivescent-ochreous-brown; cilia black, alternated with white, Forewing with an outwardly-oblique black irregular-shaped broken band crossing from middle of the cell to the disc above the submedian vein; the apical area from end of cell and the exterior border also black; before the apex is a short white ...
Pressed and dried: Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns) specimens are pressed and dried plants that are mounted on herbarium sheets. Various techniques are used to attach the plants with the most common method of using archival adhesive with heavier portions of the plant supported additionally by linen thread or narrow strips of ...
Like the latter, it also lacks a white dot in the pinkish-orange subapical field of the ventral and dorsal forewings. Its upperwing coloration has the purest orange of the three; the American painted lady is usually quite reddish. A less reliable indicator is the row of black eyespots on the dorsal submarginal hindwing.
Here is a list of host plants used by the bordered patch: Common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia; Giant ragweed, Ambrosia trifida var. texana; Baltimora species; Straggler daisy, Calyptocarpus vialis; bonesets, Eupatorium spies; Indian blanketflower, Gaillardia pulchella; Sunflower, Helianthus annuus; Silverleaf sunflower, Helianthus argophyllus