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Hiker's Notebook: Dandelion
Dandelion seeds are contained in individual indehiscent (not opening at maturity) fruits ... The leaves spread in a rosette that blocks sunlight to adjacent ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Yellow Birch
When the veneering process was first developed in the middle of the 19th Century, the finely grained rose-yellow wood of the yellow birch proved to be ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Chanterelle
Chanterelles are also easily identified by the cornucopia shape of the stalk, by the rich yellow-orange coloration of the cap, and by the irregular shape of ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Black Locust
Common Name: Black Locust, Yellow Locust, Locust Tree, Robinia, False Acacia - The name locust tree is attributed to the religious sects that immigrated to ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Norway Spruce
Common Name: Norway Spruce, Red fir - Both Norway and Spruce are associated ... Abies is the Latin word for the European silver fir (Abies picea) from abeo ...
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Sierra Club PRO: Events
Sierra Club Potomac Region Outings organizes hikes and other kinds of events on behalf of the Sierra Club's greater Washington DC metro area chapters.
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The Mushroom Chronicles
Champignon is also the German word for mushroom, evidently taken directly from the French. And to really confuse things, the Latin word for mushroom is ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Red Fox
The diversity and geographic dispersion of the subspecies of red fox are indicative of the successful adaptation of survival traits that characterize their ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Red Maple
The species name is from ruber, the Latin word for "red." The red maple has the distinction of having the greatest north-south geographic range of any tree ...
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Hiker's Notebook: Red Maple
Common Name: Red Maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple, water maple, Carolina red maple, Drummond red maple - Maple is of Germanic and Norse origin, ...
