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Native plant: Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) A woody, dedicuous vine, Virginia Creeper can be high-climbing or trailing, 3-40 ft.; the structure on which it climbs is the limiting factor. Virginia Creeper climbs by means of tendrils with disks that fasten onto bark or rock. Its leaves, with 5 leaflets, occasionally 3 or 7, radiating from the tip of the petiole, coarsely toothed, with a pointed tip, and tapered to the base, up to 6 inches long. Leaves provide early fall color, turning brilliant mauve, red and purple. Inconspicuous flowers small, greenish, in clusters, appearing in spring. Fruit bluish, about 1/4 inch in diameter.
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Mr. Smarty Plants: I have been to Austin a few times, but never during wildflower season. Can you suggest to me what would be the ideal time to come?
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Supplier: A V Seeds (Longmont, CO) We supply the majority of our native seed and seed mixes to reclamation and revegetation companies. We have five branches in three states.
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Organization: Society For Economic Botany (Boulder, CO)
The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) was established in 1959 to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications.
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Book: "Plants of the Tahoe Basin: Flowering Plants, Trees, & Ferns" (University of California Press) Amazon.com This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the trees, ferns, and flowering plants of the Tahoe Basin. Covering more than 600 species, many of them rare, and with over 300 color photographs, here is the most complete and up-to-date wildflower guide available for this floristically rich region.
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