columbines
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Description:
Scientific name: Aquilegia
Height: 30-80 cm (12-30 inches)
Life span: 3-5 years of age
Growth: This plant blooms from the months March to July and produces fruit in mid to late June to August (summer).
Usage: The seed of this plant is also used for medication remedies such as headaches, sore throats, stomatitis, and etc.
This bright flower, Columbines, may look delicate and fragile, but really, it isn't. Columbines can survive disturbances of fires and can readily regenerate by seed when dead. By the time the flowers are long gone, the seeds are mature and ready for collection. You can tell seeds are ready for collection when the follicles begin to turn to a black color.
Columbines grow in different colors, including the shades of:
These plants come in various colors because there are about 70 species of them and approximately 1/3 of them come form North America.
Adaptations:
An adaptation that the Columbine has is the ability to reproduce itself quickly. This can help the Columbine flower in many ways because herbivores like to feed on this type of plant. So it's very unlikely for the Columbine flower to extinct anytime soon in coniferous forests.
Scientific name: Aquilegia
Height: 30-80 cm (12-30 inches)
Life span: 3-5 years of age
Growth: This plant blooms from the months March to July and produces fruit in mid to late June to August (summer).
Usage: The seed of this plant is also used for medication remedies such as headaches, sore throats, stomatitis, and etc.
This bright flower, Columbines, may look delicate and fragile, but really, it isn't. Columbines can survive disturbances of fires and can readily regenerate by seed when dead. By the time the flowers are long gone, the seeds are mature and ready for collection. You can tell seeds are ready for collection when the follicles begin to turn to a black color.
Columbines grow in different colors, including the shades of:
- Blue
- Violet
- Pink
- Red
- Yellow
- White
These plants come in various colors because there are about 70 species of them and approximately 1/3 of them come form North America.
Adaptations:
An adaptation that the Columbine has is the ability to reproduce itself quickly. This can help the Columbine flower in many ways because herbivores like to feed on this type of plant. So it's very unlikely for the Columbine flower to extinct anytime soon in coniferous forests.
blue spruce trees
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Description:
Scientific name: Picea Pungens Var. Glauca
Height: 50 metres (165 feet)
Shape: Upright
Spread: 20-30 feet
Usage: It can sometimes be used as Christmas trees but rarely used as a source of wood because it is a slow growing tree.
A beautiful tree is called to be a Blue Spruce tree. It's unlike most trees because of it's magnificent visual perception of the colors silver and bluish green. These trees can grow very high because of their capability to grow fairly quickly at a young age. This tree may not be in the top ten most popular list of evergreens, but is still rated to be quite well known.
This tree is also well known on how it's able to maintain its color and to growth in acidic soil (like the coniferous forest). Even with all abilities, the Blue Spruce tree is still cut down by many farmers. Blue Spruce trees are often cut down by the farmers because it sometimes begins to develop diseases such as cytospra canker and rhizosphaera needle cast. It also is cut down before it reaches to its mature height (75 feet) or spread of 20 feet. Farmers must be cautious when cutting down these trees because of safety hazards.
Adaptations:
The Blue Spruce tree can grow even in high pH soils and even drought because of its amazing adaptation. It's allowed to grow freely in high pH soils because it has strong, adaptable roots that give an astounding hold on the coniferous soil floor. It's able to have an astounding grip on the soil because it's rich. This is because the Blue Spruce tree prefers to grow in rich soils like the soil in coniferous forests.
Scientific name: Picea Pungens Var. Glauca
Height: 50 metres (165 feet)
Shape: Upright
Spread: 20-30 feet
Usage: It can sometimes be used as Christmas trees but rarely used as a source of wood because it is a slow growing tree.
A beautiful tree is called to be a Blue Spruce tree. It's unlike most trees because of it's magnificent visual perception of the colors silver and bluish green. These trees can grow very high because of their capability to grow fairly quickly at a young age. This tree may not be in the top ten most popular list of evergreens, but is still rated to be quite well known.
This tree is also well known on how it's able to maintain its color and to growth in acidic soil (like the coniferous forest). Even with all abilities, the Blue Spruce tree is still cut down by many farmers. Blue Spruce trees are often cut down by the farmers because it sometimes begins to develop diseases such as cytospra canker and rhizosphaera needle cast. It also is cut down before it reaches to its mature height (75 feet) or spread of 20 feet. Farmers must be cautious when cutting down these trees because of safety hazards.
Adaptations:
The Blue Spruce tree can grow even in high pH soils and even drought because of its amazing adaptation. It's allowed to grow freely in high pH soils because it has strong, adaptable roots that give an astounding hold on the coniferous soil floor. It's able to have an astounding grip on the soil because it's rich. This is because the Blue Spruce tree prefers to grow in rich soils like the soil in coniferous forests.
POISON OAK
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Description:
Scientific name: Toxicodendron Diversilobum
Height: 91 cm (36 inches)
Shape: Round shapes leaves
Growth: Poison oak grows in a vine type form.
The poison oak as it is said in the name, is poisonous, and this is because when you've had any type of contact with this plant, you'ld suffer from:
Locations of Poison Oak:
Adaptations:
The plant, poison oak, adapts to the coniferous forest because of its ability to withstand cold and warm weathers. It also adapted to this biome very well because it can protect itself from animals (Dall Sheep) eating it as the symptoms of it also may apply to animals as well. So with this ability, to appear very unappealing to both humans and animals, it is able to reproduce in large amounts.
Scientific name: Toxicodendron Diversilobum
Height: 91 cm (36 inches)
Shape: Round shapes leaves
Growth: Poison oak grows in a vine type form.
The poison oak as it is said in the name, is poisonous, and this is because when you've had any type of contact with this plant, you'ld suffer from:
- itchiness
- small red bumps that later evolves into various sized blisters (blisters may crush or ooze)
- rashes (appears usually in the span of 24-72 hours)
- developing of blister
- drowsiness
- red streaks on the area the poison oak had contact with the skin
- enlargement or swelling of the face, genitals, mouth, neck, or eyelids (in extreme cases of swelling, eyelids may not be able to open)
Locations of Poison Oak:
- large growths in areas where established vegetation has been disturbed
- along the sides of roads
- abandoned land
- uncultivated fields
Adaptations:
The plant, poison oak, adapts to the coniferous forest because of its ability to withstand cold and warm weathers. It also adapted to this biome very well because it can protect itself from animals (Dall Sheep) eating it as the symptoms of it also may apply to animals as well. So with this ability, to appear very unappealing to both humans and animals, it is able to reproduce in large amounts.