{"id":5731,"date":"2011-07-25T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2011-07-25T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:40:40","slug":"scouting-for-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":"Scouting for Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Calochortus\"<\/a><\/em>

Calochortus brumeaunis<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"lupine\"<\/dt>\n
Lupinus argentus var. argentus<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffSo what does a seed scouting mission look like? Scouting for seeds takes a surprising amount of time and effort, and my technique for doing the scouting is an evolving process. Here\u2019s what it looks like at the moment:
\nMonday, I went out scouting. I was scouting for two Crepis species, C. acuminata <\/em>and C. occidentalis,<\/em> two hours north in the Bodie Hills. At my first stop I found plenty of C. acuminata<\/em>, and also stopped to key out and collect a specimen of Calochortus brumeaunis<\/em>. My next stop was further up the highway. I was concentrating of finding Crepis occidentatlis<\/em>, as I had not seen any sign of it at my first stop. While I did find lots of the other Crepis species that I was looking for, I could not positively identify C. occidentalis<\/em>. Instead I identify a large population of Lupinus argentus var. argentus, for which I collected a few voucher specimens in case I decide to go back to collect seeds. My last stop was supposed to check out a population of lupine and prickly phlox further into the Bodie Hills. After surviving road construction delays, and bumpy dirt roads, I turned into the pasture through which I had to pass to get to these two dense clumps of plants. About a quarter of the way down the road I found myself at a stream crossing that had not been there the week before when we found the populations. But I had heard stories about people getting stuck at this spot in the mud. I got out of the truck to look at it. It was 18 inches deep. I could go through and have accomplished something with my afternoon, or I could get stuck, and have to call in to get someone to unstick me from the mud. I decided to back up and try to find another population.<\/p>\n

\"Crepis<\/a>

Crepis acuminata<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lupinus argentus var. argentus \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffSo what does a seed scouting mission look like? Scouting for seeds takes a surprising amount of time and effort, and my technique for doing the scouting is an evolving process. Here\u2019s what it looks like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5736,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}