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Post by richjam1986 on Jul 13, 2011 1:10:46 GMT
Hi all:
Just updating on recent finds by Meadowview Research Station as we continue to search for rare plants in southeast Virginia. We are having lots of fun going out on the big search for rare plants about once a week. Recenty we canoed a millpond in southern Virginia and found what we think to be a new county record for Utricularia radiata. It was a beautiful pond with good biodiversity and excellent water quality (even after a violent rainstorm the day before). We were searching specifically for Drosera intermedia, trying to find the site that may have seeded into our other recent find of D. intermedia in Surry county (a very unexpected find, and also a county record). Unfortunately, we didn't see it there. Some clues indicate that Drosera intermedia and other species of interest may have inhabited this pond but were eradicated by quickly shifting water levels in the past century. In addition, we have continued to find some interesting Sphagnum mosses, one which was a a beautiful Christmas-y red and green splotched species, and one which is a Virginia endangered plant (S1). We have also found good sites for the state endagered red milkweed, orange fringed orchid, and visited a site for the endangered sun facing coneflower (Rudbeckia heliopsidis), among others. Our searches aren't over for the summer, so stay tuned. For more detail and updates, see Meadowview's facebook page as well as Dr. Sheridan's and "wireman's" (Graham's) posts here and on terraforums conservation link.
Cheers
Richard Meadowview Research Station Intern
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