Talk:Purshia

Merge
ok but how do we merge the articles? I don't know how to do that yet but I vote for merging though.Hey Joe what you know? (talk) 02:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Picture Identification
All the photos look like P. mexicana (cliffrose), not P. tridentata (bitterbrush) to me. The flowers seem way too big to be tridentata, and the leaves have too many lobes. Anybody care to comment? Toiyabe 01:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The Purshia book (I forget the authors, and forgot to add here) has an interesting map showing the three main species' ranges all overlapping in southern Nevada - and they hybridize freely. I'm half-inclined to throw out all my Purshia pics taken within a hundred miles of Las Vegas; I don't think a single one has been unambiguously assignable to a species. Stan 07:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, I wasn't aware of the hybridization issue. I'm only familiar with P. tridentata from northern Nevada, and those photos don't look like what I'm used to.   I'll take some pictures this spring if I can catch one in bloom.  P. mexicana (or Cowania mexicana as my references all list it) doesn't make it this far north, except in cultivation.   Toiyabe 16:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I have Reno-area pictures in my backlog too. They do look rather different from the ones here, much more of a cream-colored flower. Stan 17:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Article under common name, text
This is the text from an article under the common name. I see that plant articles are under scientific names (although animals are under common names and viruses under both). I move this here, and create redirect, except it should redirect to sea thrift, not Purshia so maybe I make it a dab.

The Cliff Rose is a member of the Rose Family. It is a medium size shrub or small tree with shredded bark which grows to between 8-20 feet in height. Leaves are dark green on top and whitish beneath with a waxy coating to 1 inch in length and the leaves are wedge-shaped, small, and have 3 to 5 lobes. The color is a deep blue-green and they look similar to evergreens. The plant typically grows in desert grasslands and pine/juniper forests in dry rocky soil at elevations between 3500 - 8000 feet. The Flowers are pale yellow, rose-like and fragrant. They are profuse in spring and continue to bloom sparsely until fall. The Seeds are attractive white-feathery plumes that persist into winter.The Branches are irregular and gnarled.

--Blechnic (talk) 00:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)