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your paintbrushes&period; These colorful members of the Orobanchaceae &lpar;until recently in the Scrophulariaceae&rpar; can be found in every state or province in North America&comma; although the great majority of the 200 or so species are limited to the western part of the continent&period; The USDA PLANTS database &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content -->&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-meta"><span class&equals;"categories">Filed Under&colon; Native Plants<&sol;span> <&sol;div><&excl;-- Place this tag where you want the &plus;1 button to render -->&NewLine;<g&colon;plusone><&sol;g&colon;plusone>&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;postclass -->&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-4595 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wildlife-garden">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<h2 class&equals;"entry-title">A Matter of Names<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&excl;-- Place this tag where you want the &plus;1 button to render -->&NewLine;<g&colon;plusone><&sol;g&colon;plusone>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-info">By <span class&equals;"author vcard"><span class&equals;"fn">Ursula Vernon<&sol;span><&sol;span> <span class&equals;"post-comments">11 Comments<&sol;span> <&sol;div>&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"entry-content">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<p>So I have this theory&period; My theory is that what you call something is very important to how you feel about it&period; Actually&comma; this isn&&num;8217&semi;t just my theory&&num;8212&semi;marketers have known this for a very long time&period; The noble filbert got no traction at all outside the Pacific Northwest&comma; but you can get hazelnut coffee anywhere&period; &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content -->&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-meta"><span class&equals;"categories">Filed Under&colon; Wildlife 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native plant is&period; As a botanist and a lawyer by education&comma; I typically use Aristotelian logic&sol;reasoning to satisfy myself when answering a question&period;  My world view is centered around the classical world&period;  But I am trying to shake that up a bit&period; Get rid of the &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content -->&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-meta"><span class&equals;"categories">Filed Under&colon; Green Roofs&comma; Native Plants<&sol;span> <span class&equals;"tags">Tagged With&colon; green roofs&comma; native plants<&sol;span> <&sol;div><&excl;-- Place this tag where you want the &plus;1 button to render -->&NewLine;<g&colon;plusone><&sol;g&colon;plusone>&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;postclass -->&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-5414 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wildlife-garden tag-equipment tag-insects">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<h2 class&equals;"entry-title">Get Thee a Hand Lens&excl;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&excl;-- Place this tag where you want the &plus;1 button to render -->&NewLine;<g&colon;plusone><&sol;g&colon;plusone>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-info">By <span class&equals;"author vcard"><span class&equals;"fn">Kelly Brenner<&sol;span><&sol;span> <span class&equals;"post-comments">6 Comments<&sol;span> <&sol;div>&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"entry-content">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<p>As a naturalist there are certain pieces of equipment which are necessary&semi; a pair of binoculars&comma; a couple of fields guides&comma; a notebook for example&period; However&comma; how many of you would have listed a hand lens as one of those necessities&quest; I never even thought of it until I read Crow Planet&colon; Essential Wisdom from &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content 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native&comma; etc&period;&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve saved the most frustrating part of this discussion for last&colon; nativars&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nativar” is handy term becoming popular to describe &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;near natives” of various sorts&period; The term covers any plant that is somewhat closely related to a local native plant but not quite it – &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content -->&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-meta"><span class&equals;"categories">Filed Under&colon; Native Plants<&sol;span> <span class&equals;"tags">Tagged With&colon; cultivars of native plants&comma; eastern cottontail rabbit image&comma; ecological landscaping&comma; goldlfinch image&comma; hog peanut vine image&comma; insects&comma; invasive&comma; local genotype&comma; meadow rue image&comma; nativars&comma; native plants&comma; Pollinators&comma; restoration&comma; sustainable landscaping&comma; 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<&sol;div>&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"entry-content">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<img width&equals;"150" height&equals;"150" src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;nativeplantwildlifegarden&period;com-Towhee-150x150&period;jpg" class&equals;"alignleft post-image" alt&equals;"Towhee" title&equals;"Towhee"&sol;><p>Statistics show that by the early &&num;8217&semi;90s urban sprawl in California had reduced the coastal sage scrub ecosystem by more than 90 percent&period; As you may know&comma; coastal sage scrub is the habitat of the threatened California Gnatcatcher and Cactus Wren&period; Another lesser-known example of native bird that has been impacted by this statistic is &lbrack;&period;&period;&period;&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><&excl;-- end &period;entry-content -->&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"post-meta"><span class&equals;"categories">Filed Under&colon; Wildlife Garden<&sol;span> <span class&equals;"tags">Tagged With&colon; Birds&comma; drought tolerant&comma; 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