June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, CCH, field notebook, Fresno flora, fuck yeah nomenclature, georeferencing, GoogleEarth, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, imaging/imagining science, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, SEINet, shallow time sample, Skittles, species concept, summer is research time, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, time travel, UC Berkeley, voucher specimens | Comments Off
June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, display and distribution, drought, field notebook, Fresno flora, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, peacocking, range, research, speculative evolution | Comments Off
June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, coffee and Kuhn, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, normal science, OBI, research, species concept, systematics | Comments Off
June 10, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, characteristics, chimeric specimen, collecting artifact, dichotomous key, Emmenanthe, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, herbarium curation, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, museum curation, Phacelia, plant press, systematics, taxonomy, this is work | Comments Off
June 8, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, determined annotations, Elmer's Glue, Eriodictyon angustifolium, for future for science, grad school, herbarium, herbarium curation, herbarium specimen, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, hyperbole tastes delicious with cilantro aioli, i reuse everything especially ideas, lunch tray, making hay while the the sun shines and the maritime fog rolls in, mounting, research, San Francisco State Student Union, SFSU, systematics, taxonomy, this is how specimens get made, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
June 7, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: but it's the only road i know, cockroaches and curators, drugstore beetle, Fallout, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, integrated pest management, research, Stegobium paniceum, worthless piece of frass | Comments Off
June 1, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Anchusa azurea, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, SFSU, summer is research time, the most beautiful school grounds ever | Comments Off
May 17, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: ants, B!, basal scales, Berkeley, Berlin, Biodiversity Heritage Library, BONN, Boraginaceae, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, Cambridge, CGE, cultivated, David Douglas, elaiosome, field notebook, George Bentham, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, IPNI, JEPS!, John Lindley, Karl Hartweg, Kew, Lincoln Constance, nectar rewards, Nemophila, Nemophila maculata, P!, Paris, pollination, research, San Francisco, SFSU, sinus appendages, species concept, systematics, the value of collections, time travel, TROPICOS, UC Berkeley, UC! | Comments Off
May 17, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, Boraginaceae Meeting 2014, boraginales and rainbows, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, ermocarps, Eurotripping, faucal scales, field notebook, flavoinoids, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, research, schizocarps, systematics, taxonomy | Comments Off
May 16, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: B!, Boraginaceae, Boraginales, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, Cordia monoica, field notebook, Fuchs, Fuschia, grad school, herbarium, hydroelectric, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Pandanus pulcher, Pflanzen der Tropen, research, Symphytum officinale, systematics, taxonomy, the dead parrot on a wire watches over us all, the gnomes have been busy, the Labyrinth is a piece of cake, this is work | Comments Off
May 14, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: B-W!, Boraginaceae, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, research, systematics, taxonomy, typification, Willdenow | Comments Off
May 13, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: B!, Berlin, Boraginaceae, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, research | Comments Off
May 4, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: boom! scope arm, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, determined annotations, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, i have no more chits to give, K!, Kew Herbarium, specimen specimen specimen, type type everywhere a type, UC Davis plant morphology dissecting kit | Comments Off
May 4, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, field notebook, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia, research, species concept, type type everywhere a type, typification | Comments Off
May 4, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, K!, Kew Herbarium, Phacelia, research, systematics, taxonomy | Comments Off
April 30, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, Cambridge Herbarium, CGE, field notebook, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophylloideae, Lindley Herbarium, research, Sainsbury Laboratory, taxonomy | Comments Off
April 28, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: borages are weedy here, botany and rainbows, brassica brassica fields of brassica, but it's the only road i know, Edgar Anderson, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, i'm sure that is what he meant, it feels normal until it isn't, just passing through, research, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
In such interesting and painful ways. I’ve developed a sensitivity to the plants I study, and I don’t mean an appreciation for them. I mean that I react to exposure. Contact dermatitis haptens, yo.
The eglandular hairs of Boraginaceae are irritating, in the field and in the herbarium. The only good thing is that the stinging hairs aren’t urticating hairs, and don’t inject pain. So I can tell when I get a handful of Urtica dioica as opposed to Phacelia malvifolia or Phacelia nemoralis. The hairs are solid and break off and stay in my skin, and then I get itchy bumps.
The glandular hairs are a different irritating issue. I respond strongly to urushiol (Toxicodendron diversilobum) too, and sometimes it is really difficult to tell if the delayed contact dermatitis came from exposure to poison oak or glandular Hydrophylloideae taxa (like Phacelia pedicellata, Phacelia parryi, Phacelia crenulata, Phacelia minor, Phacelia campanularia…). Here is a pro-tip, NEVER ROLL AROUND IN A FIELD OF PHACELIA CRENULATA. It looks really pretty, but Phacelia crenulata smells like Phacelia crenulata, and then you will smell like Phacelia crenulata, and you have geranylhydroquinone everywhere.
so pretty. so shiny.
REYNOLDS, G. W., W. L. EPSTEIN, and E. RODRIGUEZ. 1986. Unusual contact allergens from plants in the family Hydrophyllaceae. Contact dermatitis 14(1):39-44.
REYNOLDS, G., and E. RODRIGUEZ. 1979. Geranylhydroquinone: A contact allergen from trichomes of Phacelia crenulata. Phytochemistry 18(9):1567-1568.
April 5, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Anacardiaceae, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, California flora, contact dermititis, field notebook, geranylhydroquinone, glandular trichomes, grad school, hapten, herbarium, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia, Phacelia crenulata, Phacelia malvifolia, Phacelia nemoralis, Phacelia pedicellata, poison oak, redox rxn, research, Toxicodendron diversilobum, Urtica dioica, Urticaceae | Comments Off
Via the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library. Eutoca multiflora Douglas ex Lindley, Botanical Register [Bot. Reg.] 14: tab. 1180. 1828. “A hardy annual, of great beauty, … resembling some small Echium in appearance”
March 31, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, Eutoca multiflora, FNANM, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Phacelia, Phacelia linearis, systematics, taxonomy | Comments Off
February 16, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, CNPS Santa Clara Chapter Scholarship, field notebook, FNANM, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, Heckard Fund, herbarium, Hydrophylloideae, Jepson Manual, research, Romanzoffia, Romanzoffia californica, Romanzoffieae, Romanzoffiinae, taxonomy, tuberous base, URAP | Comments Off
November 18, 2013 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, c13, California Academy of Sciences, California flora, CAS Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, Cetacea, Claude the albino alligator, disability, field notebook, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, marine to terrestrial transition, microfossils, nomenclature, origins, research, species concept, systematics, The Moss Room, voucher specimens | Comments Off
November 13, 2013 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: bite force, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, c13, cold storage, Dinosauria, grad school, health and safety, herbarium, Jurassic Park, museum, the freezer will eat you | Comments Off
October 2, 2013 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, Dr. Patterson, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophylloideae, Jepson Manual, mentor, more fun, research, SFSU | Comments Off
