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Oregon's Yellowstone Wildflower of the Week #9
Oregon's Yellowstone hosts 1,400 known plant species--over 100 of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Check out this week's beautiful lily...
Photo by Wendell Wood
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in southwestern Oregon is one of the few regions in the lower 48 with such extraordinary biodiversity. This week's flower lends beauty to an otherwise hot summer landscape.
Lilium bolanderi: Bolander's Lily
As summer’s heat intensifies in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon’s (and adjacent northern California), there is one good reason to still visit some of the more open, dry, stony, hillsides. That good reason is the Bolander’s Lily; it suddenly graces these primarily serpentine soil-dominated sites, adding this flower’s rich, deep red beauty.
Bolander’s lily and some 36 other species of flowering plants were named for 19th century, German-born, American botanist Henry Nicholas Bolander (1831 –1897). Mr. Bolander, who began studying botany in Ohio, later lived in San Francisco. There he corresponded with many of the eminent botanists of his day. Over time, these botanist colleagues expressed their gratitude for the Pacific Coast specimens Bolander collected (and sent to them) by naming the species he discovered in his honor.
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