2018 Summer LNPS Newsletter

Topics:

  • Growing and Gardening with Mountain Mints in Louisiana
  • Marc Pastorek
  • Pycnanthemum
  • Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  • Narrow Leaf Mountain Mint
  • Pycnanthemum muticum
  • Lowland Mountain Mint
  • Pycnanthemum albescens
  • White Leafed Mountain Mint
  • Pycnanthemum albescens var. Malcom’s mint
  • What is “O. E.”?
  • Linda Auld, “Bug Lady”
  • Monarch
  • Monarch Watch
  • Monarch Tagging Program
  • Tropical milkweed
  • OE
  • Ophryocystis elektroscirrha
  • Christen Steele
  • Asclepias tuberosa
  • Butterfly weed
  • Asclepias perennis
  • Aquatic milkweed
  • Asclepias incarnata
  • Swamp milkweed
  • Asclepias curassavica
  • Tropical milkweed
  • What Trees Recorded in Louisiana are on the Champion Trees National Register?
  • Dawn McMillian
  • Assimina parviflora, Smallflower Pawpaw
  • Cornus drummondii
  • Roughleaf Dogwood
  • Crataegus spathulata
  • Littlehip Hawthorn
  • Ilex ambigua
  • Carolina Holly
  • Ilex coriacea
  • Large Gallberry
  • Pinus glabra
  • Spruce Pine
  • Quercus incana
  • Bluejack Oak
  • Quercus virginiana
  • Live Oak
  • Taxodium distichum
  • Common Bald Cypress
  • Ulmus americana
  • American Elm
  • Plant Identification; the 80%-20% Idea
  • Charles Allen
  • List of woody genera with opposite or whorled leaves.
  • List of woody genera with compound leaves.
  • List of woody genera with palmate major veins.
  • List of armed (thorns, spines, or prickles or stems and/or leaves) woody genera.
  • List of woody genera with strong odor to crushed leaves and/or stem.
  • List of woody genera with evergreen leaves.
  • List of woody genera that are vines.
  • List of woody genera that do have any of the unusual characteristics.
  • Louisiana Native Plant Society Group in Facebook
  • Bonnie LaBorde Johnson

PHOTOS: Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, Pycnanthemum muticum, White Leafed Mountain Mint flowers, Pycnanthemum albescens var Malcolm’s Mint, Digital picture of scales and spores obtained from an infected monarch, An infected pupa, Adults that are heavily infect ed with OE, “Butterflyweed” – Asclepias tuberosa – Native, “Swamp” – Asclepias incarna ta – Native, “Aquatic” – Asclepias perennis – The Best Native, Asclepias curassavica – Not Native, “Scarlet”, “Silky Gold”, Doby’s Seven Sisters Live Oak, Forest scene documenting size, pecan tree in Assumption Parish Louisiana, National Champion Bald Cypress Tree

Illustrations: Simple Leaf, Leaf Arrangement – Alternate, Leaf Arrangement – Opposite, Leaf Arrangement – Whorled, Pinnate Major Veins, Palmate Major Veins, Palmate Compound Leaf, Odd Pinnate Compound Leaf, Even Pinnate Compound Leaf, Bi-pinnate Odd Compound

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