Month: May 2022

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Platystemon californicus

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Platystemon californicus. See image source here.

#228 They called me Platystemon californicus, also known as Platystemon hallii. I pay homage to the male botanist Edwin Cuthbert Hall, Harry Hall, or Harvey Monroe Hall. They first catalogued me in 1835.

Native to Arizona, California, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah.

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Spermacoce remota

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Spermacoce remota. See image source here.

#227 They called me Spermacoce remota, also known as Spermacoce chapmanii, and Spermacoce tenuior var. commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Alvan Wentworth Chapman, or Alexander Robert Chapman. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Alabama, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Rumex crispus

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Rumex crispus. See image source here.

#226 They called me Rumex crispus, also known as Rumex kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, and Yugoslavia.