Thursday, July 30, 2009

Virginia Snakeroot

Aristolochia serpentaria

http://www.georgiavines.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_10&products_id=379

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ARSE3

Interesting that it is in Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan but not in Wisconsin.

How does it know where the political boundaries are?
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2 comments:

  1. ElizabethJuly 30, 2009 at 7:51 AM

    Maybe the state of Wisconsin implements an active anti-snakeroot policy.

    Political borders have an impact on the environments they separate. Satellite images (from Google Earth, for example) of the Montana-Canada border make that clear: the different states use the land differently, and that impacts the ecosystems that live on that land.

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  2. OrthoclaseJuly 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM

    Interesting point.

    I am going to have to look into this further.

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