[pct-l] western section R

marmot marmot marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 29 19:27:37 CDT 2021


And it changes the biodiversity within the same species. Makes more seeds too
Maybe the colour attracts different insects or birds to spread the new seeds and pollen and moves around the new combined DNA. 
Marmot

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> On Jun 29, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Town Food <pctl at marcusschwartz.com> wrote:
> 
> Your mention of wildflowers in burn zones reminded me -- it seems to me that the wildflowers in burn zones on the PCT tend to be mostly purple. Overwhelmingly so, even.
> 
> I'm no botanist, and this was just my general impression, hardly a scientific study.  So I may just be totally wrong about that.  But could there be a botanical reason for purple, specifically, to be advantageous in burn zones?
> 
> Just curious if anybody knows.
> 
> -=Town Food
> 
>> On 6/29/21 11:32 AM, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
>> Generally speaking, when you hit burned areas in Q and R,
>> you hit dense brush and
>> many down logs - and abundant wildflowers.
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