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Boschniakia rossica
- Family name: Orobanchaceae
- Common name: northern groundcone
- Growth form: Forb
- Names used on the Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
- Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Boschniakia rossica
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- Boschniakia rossica is an achlorophyllous parasitic plant, entirely dependent on its host. It occurs in western North America, often parasitizing Alnus species.
Image author: Stephan Imhof ©
Website: Parasitic and Mycotrophic Flowering Plants
Please contact imhof@staff.uni-marburg.de before using image
Source of original image
- Denali National Park, AK, USA, 2002
Image author: Paul Slichter ©
Website: Flora and Fauna Northwest
Source of original image
- north of Paxson, AK, USA
Image author: Mark Egger ©
Website: Parasitic Plant Connection
Source of original image
- For more information about this plant:
- USDA PLANTS Database: boro
- Nomenclature:
- Vascular Plants:
- Elven, R., Murray, D.F., Razzhivin, V.Y. & Yurtsev, B.A. (2006): Checklist of the Panarctic Flora (PAF). Vascular plants. - Draft. University of Oslo, Oslo. (see also: Panarctic Flora).
- Vascular Plants:
- Other possible sources for additional information and photos:
- DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) as a standard for data exchange. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems. - Den virtuella floranSwedish Natural History Museum; in Swedish. Search by Latin name at Innehållsförteckning.
- Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and LabradorThe website is a co-operative project/partnership, involving a number of individual participants, some representing present or former parent institutions or agencies, others representing themselves. The website was begun, originally, to serve as a working image resource for the Newfoundland Rare Plant Project. It is hosted by one of its main partners, the The Rooms, Provincial Museum. Rights to the images and data included remain with the various individual partners.
- Flora Danica OnlineThe digitizing of Flora Danica is part of a CultureNet Denmark project carried out at The Danish National Library of Science and Medicine (DNLB). The purpose of the project is to publish Danish plates of natural history on the WWW. All 3240 plates are available on the WWW. It is posssible to search individual plants and to browse the plates.
- Flora of IcelandIt is not known exactly how many plants in the widest sense, are involved in the Flora of Iceland. A team of Icelandic scientists, especially at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, are investigating the different groups of plants, and they find every year several species not known from Iceland before, especially fungi, lichens and bryophytes. The phanerogam flora, flowering plants and ferns, are far better known. Only exceptionally, or once every 10 years are new wild species of vascular plants discovered in Iceland. One of the last one was Andromeda polifolia, which grows in a few remote places in the Northeastern part of the island. As far as known today, there are more than 5.000 species of plants and fungi growing wild in Iceland.
- Flora of North AmericaFNA presents for the first time, in one published reference source, information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
- Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, Herbarium – University of WisconsinThe University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Herbarium houses a collection of approximately 35,000 dried vascular plant vouchers, of which over 90% are from Wisconsin.
- Josef Hlasek - Photo GalleriesPhoto gallery of plant images
- Leif & Anita Stridvall Plant GalleryGallery of lichen images; identified with scientific name, location of photograph, date, and subject width.
- Lichen Herbarium – University of Oslo, NorwayThe lichen herbarium at the Botanical Museum in Oslo consists of a Norwegian herbarium (c. 100,000 specimens), a foreign herbarium (c. 170,000 specimens), a type herbarium (c. 1,000 specimens), and a collection of exsiccatae (c. 5,000 specimens).The herbarium maintains a database of species housed in our Norwegian and foreign herbaria, a checklist of the Norwegian lichens, and the list of Norwegian vernacular names for lichens proposed by the Norwegian Botanical Society. These lists may be downloaded from our Up-/Download page.
- Linnean Herbarium – Swedish Museum of Natural HistoryThe Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts. The specimens were once distributed by Linnaeus to his disciples and eventually they became part of the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, subsequently the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Linnaeus' main collections are today housed at the The Linnean Society of London.
- Michael Luth - Pictures of BryophytesIn German; very well organized, 50-75 preview images from several for-sale CDs, with photographs of bryophytes; includes habitat, habitus and details, in the field and in the studio. The pictures are in jpg format with a solution of 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels and are available to use in lectures, presentations and publications (with reference to the author). The disks comes with a ready installed picture browser.
- Norwegian Botanical Society In Norwegian; see NBF's Plantefotoarkiv for a list of Latin names; select name to see photos.
- Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium – University of WisconsinThis website attempts to present information to the botanists and general public about the plants growing in Wisconsin. The site is divided into several areas. Natural Communities, Ethnobotany, Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens. Each Species Detail page has, when available: a thumbnail map, photograph, synonym list, descriptions of the plant including status, size, flower, stem, leaf, fruit, blooming times, botanical name derivation, and links to ethobotanical uses, additional photographs, natural community information, detail distribution maps, direct links for more information, and Google searches.
- USFS National Lichens & Air Quality Database and Clearinghouse
- Wisconsin BryophytesBryophytes; a subset of the Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium
- Plants of IcelandThis site deals with the birds, plants, and landscape of Iceland. It offers photographic guides to characteristic floral elements, birdlife, and landscape images of this remarkable island: in the top menu choose "entries start". Next to the photo-illustrated guides, in-depth information on vegetation, bird life and geology is presented in the "birds/plants information pages" and the "landscape features of Iceland". Also two internal search programs are included through which you can search directly for information on specific plants or birds.
- DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)