Isaac Lichter Marck
@ca-naturalist.bsky.social
Daisy taxonomist studying plant evolutionary radiations in oceanic & sky islands + Deserts. Lindsay Chair - Assistant Curator of Botany @ California Academy of Sciences. He/Him. rockdaisy.wordpress.com
Chemical diversity and phylogenetic insights into Hawaiian ʻākia (Wikstroemia) species used in traditional fishing practices nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Winther et al. @WIleyPlantSci @ntbgarden.bsky.social @ninaronsted.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @nhmdk.bsky.social
📣 The latest issue of the journal published by The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) is out! Check it out at: www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...
New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722
Conglomerate Mesa is one of the most incredible sky islands in the West—rising like a giant cupcake above the desert, frosted with rare plants like the Inyo rock daisy. Now, Canadian mining company K2 is nearly approved to drill it for gold. #ProtectConglomerateMesa #PublicLands #botany
Friends of the Inyo @friendsoftheinyo.bsky.social · last yr.Protect Conglomerate Mesa! Submit a comment now! Click here: www.protectconglomeratemesa.com K2 Gold is back and wants to drill Conglomerate Mesa! Tell the BLM they should protect the Mesa. How else to help: Attend the public meeting Lone Pine at Statham Hall from 5-7 pm on Tuesday June 10th.
Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes! Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests! Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.🌵 #Botany2025 Field Trips & Workshops are open for registration! 🌴 Explore alpine meadows, desert oases, and beyond! Student field trip waivers available (see website for details). Workshops cover 3D printing, data analysis, graphic design, plus much more. Register now! www.botanyconference.org
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨 For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger. #IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
It has been wonderful to see all the enthusiasm for the #woolydevil in the midst of everything else going on. This is a wonderful write up by @npr.org @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
NPR@npr.org · 2y agoThe plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
Just in time for spring! New research led by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social on the evolutionary origins of desert wildflowers in genus #Linanthus, the desert snow or sand blossoms.
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y agoWhen the sand blossoms: #Phylogeny, trait #evolution, & geography of speciation in #Linanthus New #AJB research by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social, Lydia Smith, Isaac Lichter-Marck & Felipe Zapata doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #desert
For the first time in nearly 50 years, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a U.S. national park. 🔗 @pensoft.net blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/19/t... 🔗 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... @calacademy.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
The woolly devil: a landmark U.S. plant discovery
Belonging to the sunflower family, the tiny plant was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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The 'wooly devil' is the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a U.S. national park for nearly 50 years. Read about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/19/t... @calacademy.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
The woolly devil: a landmark U.S. plant discovery
Belonging to the sunflower family, the tiny plant was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
blog.pensoft.net
Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net
Enhorabuena al #biodiverso M.March por el editorial publicado en Basic and Applied Ecology sobre investigación y conservación de flora de acantilados "Cliff ecosystems: A critical yet uncharted frontier for research and conservation" @ca-naturalist.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A bright spot in a dark week. The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) has just put out the newest volume of the bi-annual publication Capitulum 3(2) and this issue has STYLE. 😎🌼 OA, here: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03... #botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity #evolution #asteraceae
Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn@anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 2y agoThe new issue of CAPITULUM, the journal of The International Compositae Alliance, is out: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03... Styles of Asteraceae: A synopsis of their morphological and functional diversity Taraxacum in Australia Commemoration of the life and career of Charles Jeffrey
Cliff ecosystems are rich in bizarre, unique plants and animals but many facts about their ecology, evolution, and conservation remain mysterious. Now out, open access, is an entire special issue devoted to cliff research in Basic and Applied Ecology: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
