Posts Tagged ‘Colorado botany’
Al Schneider and Peggy Lyon: Discoverers of the Elegant Lone Mesa Snakeweed
The Lone Mesa Snakeweed The Denver Post reported that a retired English professor and amateur botanist named Al Schneider and a Colorado State University Botany student named Peggy Lyon discovered a new plant in the Asteraceae, or sunflower, family and it was called Gutierrezia elegans. (“Goo-tee-ah-REEZ-ee-ah”) Al and Peggy named their variety “elegans” for its…
Read MoreThe Botanical King of Colorado: Charles Christopher Parry’s Mountain Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 28, 1823 My dear green-thumbed companions, today marks the birthday of a most remarkable plantsman, the one and only Charles Christopher Parry, crowned the “King of Colorado Botany,” who graced this earth…
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