Re: SPEC: cristata
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- Subject: Re: SPEC: cristata
- From: "* M* C* o* B* S* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:39:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: "J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey" <storey@aristotle.net>
A while back I posted a question about cristata seen thriving in a mostly
dry creekbed in Central Arkansas. I wasn't sure these were cristata because
the plants looked so green, pliant and healthy in the midst of this
mini-drought. All the cristata in my neighborhood looks a little bit tough.
Turns out they were indeed cristata, which although common along hillsides
here is also common in washes. The native species likes water and a
humous-heavy soil and will grow merily across moss-covered rocks and even
(I've seen it) up mossy tree trunks, if only for a foot or so.
The stand in question was transferred from a woodland wash on timber
company land several years back before the place was poisoned and clearcut.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
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