MAE DAY

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MAE DAY

• Malvaceae
• Amaranthaceae
• Ericaceae

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Scarlet GlobemallowFamily Malvaceae

• Greyish herb with dense starry hair
• Grows on desert slopes
• Loves the sun and loves the drought
• Brews sweet but slimy tea.
• Flowers orange in dry garden spots and soothing
  to the throat,
• Five broad petals shallowly notched grow in
  clusters near its top.
• Not too tall unless to ants, we see it throughout
  the West.
• May through August if we are lucky.
• Sphaeralcea cocccinea
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Sphaeralcea cocccineaFamily Malvaceae
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Malvaceae

• The Mallow Family contains 204 genera with 2330
  species of cosmopolitan range with many found in
  South America. They are herbaceous plants, shrubs
  or trees.

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Malvaceae

• Major genera worldwide
• Abutilon, Althaea, Gossypium, Hibiscus, Hoheria,
  Kitaibelia, Lavatera, Malope, Malva, Malvastrum,
  Malvaviscus, Palaua, Pavonia, Sida, Sidalcea,
  Tilia, Urena.

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Malvaceae

• In Montana (Dorn 1984)
• Abutilon, Alcea, Hibiscus, Iliamna, Malva,
  Sidalcea, and Sphaeralcea

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Malvaceae

• Leaf Characteristics
• The leaves are alternate, with leafy growths
  where they join the stem, and they are often
  hairy.
• The leaves are often palmate and lobed or divided
  (Hollyhock), or undivided and toothed (Hibiscus).

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Malvaceae

• Flower Characteristics
• The usually radial flowers of this family are
  larger and composed of five separate petals,
  usually rolled up together in bud or dying.
• The stamens and style form a long tube protruding
  from the center of the flower, and the stigma at
  the end of the tube is divided.
• The calyx is composed of five sepals, sometimes
  joined, with another row of conspicuous bracts
  beneath them.

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Malvaceae

• Seedpod Characteristics
• In many species, there are many disc-shaped seeds
  in a ring at the bottom of the style, with the
  calyx folded over them (hollyhock).
• In some species, there may be only five rounded
  seeds inside the calyx.
• In the genera Hibiscus and Gossypium, the seeds
  are enclosed in a capsule.
• In one case (Malvaviscus), the fruit is a berry.
• The fruit is always formed from a superior ovary.

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Malvaceae

• Important food plants include Theobroma cacao
  (chocolate), Cola spp. (cola), Hibiscus
  esculentus (okra). The natural mucilage
  ingredient of marshmallows also comes from this
  plant.
• An important fiber plant is cotton (Gossypium
  spp.)
• Basswood (Tilia spp.) comes from this family.

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MalvaceaeWe thank you, maybe!?!
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Malvaceae

• Imagine a world w/o Marshmallow Peeps

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Marshmallow Peeps CupcakesFamily Malvaceae

• 18 1/4 ozs white cake mix 
• 1 tbsp olive oil 
• 1 1/2 ozs Dream Whip whipped topping mix, dry 
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 
• 1/2 tsp baking powder 
• 7 1/4 ozs Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting
•  1 c water, cold 
• 24 pcs Marshmallow Peeps 
• 1/2 c egg whites, slightly beaten 
• jelly beans 
• Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 24 standard muffin
  cups with cooking spray and flour set aside To
  prepare batter, combine cake mix, whipped topping
  mix, and baking powder in a mixing bowl. In
  another mixing bowl, combine water, egg whites,
  oil, and vanilla extract. Mix dry ingredients
  with wet ingredients just until moistened. Spread
  batter evenly between muffin cups. Bake 20
  minutes or until top springs back when touched.
  Cool. Prepare frosting mix according to package
  directions. Spread over cooled cupcakes. Top each
  cupcake with Peep and jelly beans.

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Malvaceae.
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Sphaeralcea coccineaMontana Native Malvaceae
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Sidalcea oreganaMontana Native Malvaceae
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Malva moschataMontana Weedy Malvaceae
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Cola acuminataFamily Malvaceae
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Theobroma cacaoFamily Malvaceae
Do you remember what cauliflory means?
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Cauliflory

• This term may be literally translated into
  "stem-flower." Under a strict definition it
  refers to flowers and inflorescences that develop
  directly from the trunks, limbs and main branches
  of woody plants. It is a marvelous adaptation for
  pollinators that cling to the trunks main limbs
  of rain forest trees. American Redbud (Cercis
  canadensis) is a temperate species with
  cauliflorous flowers.

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Lambs-QuartersFamily Amaranthaceae

• Springtime annual, lush gray green
• Grows in disturbed places.
• Rich soils, Poor soils do not matter
• We ate it on our dinner platter.
• In the garden we pulled it out but its fruit can
  make a flour,
• Tiny blooms with mealy heads and black shiny
  seeds its sum,
• Its goosefoot leaves do not leave tracks
• Chenopodium album

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Chenopodium albumFamily Amaranthaceae
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Amaranthaceae

• The flowering plant (angiosperm) family
  Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains 169
  genera and 2,360 species. Most of these species
  are herbs or subshrubs very few are trees or
  climbers. Does anyone remember what a subshrub
  is?

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Amaranthaceae

• This is a widespread and cosmopolitan family
  found mostly in subtropical and tropical regions,
  although many species belong in cool temperate
  regions. It is especially characteristic of
  disturbed, arid, or saline habitats. Do you
  think this family likes eastern Montana?

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Amaranthaceae

• In the APG II system of 2003 (unchanged from the
  APG System of 1998), the family is placed in the
  order Caryopyllales. It includes the plants
  formerly treated as the family Chenopodiaceae.
• Well-known chenopodioid species include beet,
  lambs quarters, quinoa, and spinach.

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Amaranthaceae

• Some species are considered weeds, but a number
  of others are popular garden ornamental plants,
  especially species from Alternanthera,
  Amaranthus, Celosia, and Iresine. Notable members
  include amaranth and tumbleweeds. Many of the
  species are halophytes (plants adapted to growing
  in salty soils.)

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Amaranthaceae

• Leaf Characteristics
• The leaves are simple opposite or alternate
  their margins entire or coarsely toothed, and
  without stipules. In most cases, there are
  neither basal or terminal aggregations of leaves.

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Amaranthaceae

• The flowers are solitary or aggregated in cymes,
  spikes, or panicles and typically perfect
  (bisexual) and actinomorphic (star shaped). A few
  species have unisexual flowers. The bracteate
  flowers are regular with 4-5 petals, often
  joined. There are 1-5 stamens. The hypogynous
  (inferior) ovary has 3-5 joined sepals.

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Amaranthaceae

• Fruit Characteristics
• The fruit can be an utricle, nut, or
  circumscissile capsule, rarely a berry.
• An utricle is like an achene, but it has a
  compound ovary, rather than a simple one. In
  addition, its fruit ovary becomes bladdery or
  corky.

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Amaranthaceae

• Although several species are often considered
  weeds, people around the world value plants in
  this family as leaf vegetables, cereal grains and
  ornamentals.
• The word comes from the Greek amarantos, the "one
  that does not wither," or the never-fading
  (flower).

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Amaranthus caudatus
Love-lies-bleeding
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Celosia spp.
Cockscomb
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RU Paying Attention???
Fried Cockscomb?
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Amaranthaceae
Swiss chard
Garden beet
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Beta vulgaris L.Family Amaranthaceae
Sugar beets are important to our regional economy
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Amaranthus powelliiaka Powells Amaranth or
Pigweed
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Sarcobatus vermiculatusFamily Amaranthaceae
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Atriplex canescensFamily Amaranthaceae
4-wing Saltbush
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Ceratoides lanataFamily Amaranthaceae
Winterfat
Winterfat
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Plants and animals share the same spaces and
places. Be aware.
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Kochia spp.Family Amaranthaceae
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Salsola ibericaFamily Amaranthaceae
Russian thistle or tumbleweed
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PipsissewaFamily Ericaceae

• Evergreen plant of woody base growing near
  Missoula,
• Loves the conifers of NW climes, from BC to
  Montana.
• Used to creep along a slope and used to flavor
  candy,
• Waxy flowers pink of saucer-shape
• Its rhizomatically tiny.
• Chimaphila menziesii

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Chimaphila menziesiiFamily Ericaceae
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Ericaceae

• The Heath Family This is a family of around 4100
  species in 124 genera, found all over the world.
  Almost half of them are in the genus
  Rhododendron, most of that genus coming mainly
  from China, and there are around 500 species of
  Erica, most of them from Southern Africa.

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Ericaceae

• This is a family mainly of shrubs or climbers,
  and almost all of them are found in acidic
  habitats, and are dependent on fungal mycorrhiza.
  Most are grown for ornament, often as hedges,
  including Gaultheria and Pernettya, although the
  leaves of Kalmia species are poisonous to stock
  and humans.

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Ericaceae

• In Great Britain, acidic moorlands are often
  covered in wild heather (Calluna and Erica
  species). That is how things are in Glocca Morra
  (Finians Rainbow.)

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The Heather on the Hillfrom Brigadoon, the
musical

• Can't we two go walkin' together, out beyond the
  valley of trees?Out where there's a hillside of
  heather, curtsyin' gently in the breeze.That's
  what I'd like to do see the heather--but with
  you.
• The mist of May is in the gloamin', and all the
  clouds are holdin' still.So take my hand and
  let's go roamin' through the heather on the
  hill.The mornin' dew is blinkin' yonder. There's
  lazy music in the rill,And all I want to do is
  wander through the heather on the hill.
• There may be other days as rich and rare.There
  may be other springs as full and fair.But they
  won't be the same--they'll come and go,For this
  I knowThat when the mist is in the gloamin',
  and all the clouds are holdin' still,If you're
  not there I won't go roamin' through the heather
  on the hill,The heather on the hill.

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Plants and animals share the same spaces and
places. Be aware.
Bagpiper, heather, and a hill near Glocca Morra
perhaps.
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Ericaceae

• The fruits of a few species, e.g. Bilberry
  (Vaccinium myrtillus) and Bog Whortleberry
  (Vaccinium uliginosum) are edible.
• The cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) and blueberry
  (Vaccinium corymbosum ) are cultivated for food
  crops.
• Montana huckleberries are in this family.

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Ericaceae

• The original source of oil of wintergreen (methyl
  salicylate) is from the plant species Gaultheria
  procumbens. Have you ever chewed wintergreen
  gum?

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Ericaceae

• Leaves and stem characteristics Many members of
  this Family are evergreen shrubs or climbers,
  with woody stems. The leaves are simple without
  stipules, usually alternate, and are often thick,
  leathery and shiny. Species growing in dry
  conditions often have thin needle-like leaves.

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Ericaceae

• Flower Characteristics There is a calyx or four
  or five sepals joined at the base. The flower has
  four or five petals, usually joined to form a
  tube or trumpet. There are usually twice as many
  stamens as petals, and they are not attached to
  the corolla. There is a single style. The flowers
  are usually in clusters or spikes, but may be
  solitary.

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Ericaceae

• Fruit characteristics
• The ovary is usually superior but may be
  inferior. The fruit is usually a capsule or a
  berry.

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Ericaceae

• Members of this Family usually have
• Woody stems and simple evergreen leaves growing
  alternately.
• Clusters of flowers.
• Flowers with 4 or 5 petals forming a tube or
  trumpet.
• Stamens not attached to the flower tube.
• And are found in acidic conditions.

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Ericaceae

• In Montana, Dorn 1984, genera include
• Allotropa, Arctostaphylos, Cassiope, Chimaphila,
  Gaultheria, Hypopitys, Kalmia, Ledum, Menziesia,
  Moneses, Monotropa, Orthilia, Phyllodoce,
  Pterospora, Pyrola, Rhododendron, Vaccinum

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Allotropa virgataFamily Ericaceae
Candystick of western Montana
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursiFamily Ericaceae
Bearberry or Kinnikinnik of Montana forests
Bearberry or kininikinik
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Cassiope spp.
Mountain heather of Montana
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Gaultheria humifusaFamily Ericaceae
Wintergreen of Western Montana Mountains.
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Hypopithys monotropaFamily Ericaceae
Pinesap
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Kalmia microphyllaFamily Ericaceae
Laurel
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Ledum glandulosumFamily Ericaceae
Labrador tea
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Menziesia ferrugineaFamily Ericaceae
Menziesia of Montana woods
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Moneses unifloraFamily Ericaceae
Moneses of Montana woods
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Monotropa unifloraFamily Ericaceae
Indian Pipe of moist Montana woods.
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Orthilia secundaFamily Ericaceae
Orthilia of Montana confierous woods
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Phyllodoce empetriformisFamily Ericaceae
Mountain heath of Montana
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Pterospora andromedeaFamily Ericaceae
Pinedrops
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Pyrola pictaFamily Ericaceae
Pyrola of western Montana
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Rhododendron albiflorumFamily Ericaceae
White Rhododendron of moist places in western
Montana mountains.
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Vaccinum membranaceumFamily Ericaceae
Mountain Huckleberry
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