natural history and evolution of species complexes
One of the northernmost collection of Pyrola picta is from the Bella Coola Valley in British Columbia, Canada. This valley terminates at the town of Bella Coola on Queen Charlotte Sound. The entire valley is surrounded by glaciers and the sea is colored by glacial till. In 2006, my brother, Karl, and I traveled to …
The southern end of the Sierra Nevada in California runs through Sequoia National Forest. On June 11-12, 2011, graduate student Naomi Fraga brought me on a trip to the area to collect Mimulus species (Phrymaceae). This forest features some great habitat (Fig. 1) for mycoheterotrophic Ericaceae as well, including Pyrola dentata. The plants I collected …
In August 2008, I flew to Boise with Jason Schmidt (now at the Bureau of Environmental Services, City of Portland) to begin a visit to mountains south and north of the Snake River Basin in southern Idaho. We first drove south to Jarbidge, Nevada along very dusty roads, unreliably marked after we left ID-51 on …
Jolles Lab 