Re: Re: missouriensis interspecies hybrids?

In a message dated 4/22/2004 8:34:49 PM Mountain Daylight Time, neilm@charter.net writes:
There are monographs--or I should say, I know for sure of one such--on the species coming from the work of a researcher at Bozeman, Montana, but for the moment I do not recall the name.  Metcalf?  H. Metcalf--something on that order. H for Homer? probably.  The study included range, chromosome counts (which vary over a substantial range, incidentally, suggesting polyploidy) color and form variations, habitats and such.  Where this or similar studies might be found I have no idea.  The range extends at high elevations nearly to or possibly beyond the Mexican border to the south, and northward possibly into the more favorable lowland climates of western Canada, probably in no other provinces than British Columbia, but I have very little knowledge of the outline of the habitats. I only know from personal experience that great clouds of seasonal pastel color cover vast acreages of what was meant to be farm pastureland in the Intermountain West.


Yes, the name you're trying to recall is Homer Metcalf.  I have not searched for I. missouriensis in Mexico, but have found it in the mountains of southern New Mexico so would not be at all surprised if there were also some colonies of it south of the border.

Sharon McAllister
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