The pictures featured here were taken by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) as part of a creation of a pollen library composed of entomophilous, flowering plants collected throughout the summer of 2012 at three prairie sites in the Laramie Basin near Laramie Wyoming. See attached document for full details on the project. Below is a list of links to pages for each of the plants collected. Each plant featured here has an associated voucher specimen housed in the Dr. Michael Dillon Laboratory at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY. The species included here represent a subset of plants collected for the pollen library. Species chosen for the website have at least three, in-focus photos sharing a common dominant pollen grain. Letter and number combinations below each of the photos indicate the site and associated vouchers for each species. Dates below each image indicate the date the plant species was collected.
This research was funded by the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium.
Pollen Library to Study Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Changing Climates
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Amelanchier alnifolia: saskatooon
Arenaria fendleri: fendler’s sandwort
Astragalus missouriensis: Missouri milk vetch
Astragalus spatulatus: tufted milk vetch
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Camelina microcarpa: littlepod false flax
Carduus undulatus var. canescens: prairie thistle
Castilleja flava: yellow Indian paintbrush
Cerastium arvense: field chickweed
Crepis runcinata: fiddle leaf hawksbeard
D
Delphinium nuttallianum: larkspur
Dieteria canescens: hoary tansyaster
Drymocallis (Potentilla) fissa: leafy cinquefoil
E
Erigeron caespitosus: tufted fleabane
Eriogonum effusum: spreading buckwheat
Erysimum capitatum: wallflower
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Frasera speciosa: monument plant
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Gaillardia aristata: common blanketflower
Grindelia squarrosa: curly top gumweed
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Ipomopsis spicata: spiked gilia
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Liatrus ligulistylis: meadow blazingstar
Linum rigidum: stiff-stem flax
Lupinus argenteus: silvery lupine
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Mahonia repens: hollygrape, creeping mahonia
O
Oenothera coronopifolia: crown-leaf evening primrose
Opuntia polyacantha; plains pricklypear
Oxytropsis sericea*lambertii: locoweed
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Paronychia sessiliflora: creeping nailwort
Pedicularis crenulata: meadow lousewort
Penstemon lancifolium var. exilifolius: white penstemon
Drymocallis (Potentilla) fissa: leafy cinquefoil
Purshia tridentada: antelope bitterbrush
Pyrrocoma lanceolata: lanceleaf goldenweed
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Sisymbrium altissimum: tall tumblemustard
Sphaeromeria simplex: false laramie sagebrush
Symphyotrichum ascendens: western aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides: white aster
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Taraxacum oficionale: dandelion
Tetradymia canescens: spineless/gray horsebrush
Thermopsis rhombifolia var. montana: mountain goldenbanner
Tragopogon dubius: western salsify
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Zigadenus elegans: mountain deathcamus