Tag: Mexican Pacific Is.

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Portulaca pilosa

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Portulaca pilosa. See image source here.

#492 They called me Portulaca pilosa, also known as Portulaca karwinskii, and Portulaca ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Karwinsk (I couldn’t find his records), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Phoradendron quadrangulare

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Phoradendron quadrangulare. See image source here.

#478 They called me Phoradendron quadrangulare, also known as Phoradendron townsendii, Phoradendron gracile var. ballii, Phoradendron millspaughii, and Phoradendron rensonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Townsend (I couldn’t find his records), Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Renson (I couldn’t find his records), and John Ball, or Carleton Roy Ball. They first catalogued me in 1864.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Is..

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Lepidium nitidum

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Lepidium nitidum. See image source here.

#475 They called me Lepidium nitidum, also known as Lepidium nitidum var. howellii. I pay homage to the male botanist Thomas Jefferson Howell. They first catalogued me in 1838.

Native to California, Chile Central, Chile South, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, Oregon, and Washington.