Earth and Space News: Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024: Dall Sheep at September Snow Willow

Summary: Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps acclaims Dall sheep at September snow willow in the latter subshrubs’ mountainous alpine habitats in North America.

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Dall sheep, also as thinhorn sheep commonly and as Ovis dalli (from Latin ovis, "sheep"; for William Healey Dall [Aug. 21, 1845-Mar 27, 1927]) scientifically, accept alder (Alnus fruticosa), alpine azalea (Loiseleuria procumbens), aster (Aster spp), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), blueberries (Vaccinium uliginosum), cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), common field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), cranberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea minus), crowberries (Empetrum nigrum), dwarf and tall willows (Salix spp), dwarf Arctic birch (Betula nana), grasses and sedges such as short sedge (Carex hepburnii), Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), Lapland Rose-bay (Rhododendron lapponiucum), leaf lichen, lichen (Cladonia spp), loco (Oxytropis spp), moss, mountain avens (Dryas spp), sage (Artemisia arctica, A. frigida, A. hookeriana), saxifrage (Saxifraga tricuspidata) and wintergreen (Pyrola spp). The seed heads of Alaskan wheatgrass (Agropyron latiglume), American and boreal sweet-vetch (Hedysarum americanum, H. mackenzi), Canadian and bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis langsdorfii, C. canadensis), red fescue (Festuca rubra), spike false oat (Trisetum spicatum) also accommodate their appetites. Their appetities likewise admit bluebells (Mertensia spp), Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis) berries, cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum) leaves and seed heads and dry larkspur (Delphinium spp); Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 12:54, USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) image of two Dall Sheep (Ovis dalli) lambs: Mike Boylan, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps acclaims Dall sheep at September snow willow in the latter subshrubs’ mountainous alpine habitats in the northwest areas of the two northern countries in North America.

Tracheophytes (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe plants”) clade membership brings snow willow xylem (from Greek ξύλον, “wood”) tissues brokering sideward-, upward-bound moisture and soluble minerals. It conveniences snow willow with non-woody phloem (from Greek φλόος, “bark, husk, peel, rind, skin”) tissues containing carbon dioxide-, sunlight-, water-created, downward-, sideward-circulating oxygenized, sugary photosynthates. Angiosperms (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) cladeship delivers snow willows, also designated net-leaved willows, seeds that dwell within fruits, developed as capsules in their case.

Eudicots (true two embryonic leaves, from Greek εὖ- δῐ- κοτῠληδών, “well two cup-shaped hollow”) cladeship entails two seed leaves at the germinated-plant base of snow willow.

Snow willow, featured scientifically as Salix reticulata (from Latin salix rēticulātus, “willow net-like”), fancies Rosids (from Greek ῥόδον, “rose [Rosa gallica]” via Latin rosa) clade membership.

Malpighiales (from Italian mal pighi, “bad freshwater-fish [Rutilus pigus]” for Marcello Malpighi [Mar 10, 1628-Nov. 30, 1694]; Latin -ālis, “pertaining”) order guards snow willow among members. Often somewhat calcareous (from Latin calx -ārius, “lime –belonging” via calcārius, “of, pertaining to lime”), chalky, soil with calcium carbonate and lime house snow willow shrubs. Such soil is on ledges and rocks inhabiting colder Europe, North America and Northern Asia, where the deciduous, dwarf, prostrate shrub is a native woody plant.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 jubilates Dall sheep, and perhaps their September snow willow leaves and twigs, in Alaska, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory.

Snow willow subshrubs, as ground-level, loose, open mats that keep extensive, multi-branching, underground stems, know maximum habits of 3-inch (8-centimeter) heights and of 12-inch (30-centimeter) breadths.

The deciduous (from Latin dēcidō, “to fall down, to fall off” via dēciduus, “falling down, falling off”) dwarf shrub lodges exposed, maximally 7.9-inch- (20-centimeter-) high stems. Snow-willow trailing stems and their branches, branchlets and twigs maintain initial hairiness even as their brown-yellowness matures into darker manifestations whose brown-redness meets with overall hairlessness. Alternate leaves with minimal 0.314961- to 0.472441-inch (8- to 12-millimeter), maximal 2.59843-inch (66-millimeter) lengths by 0.314961- to 1.9685-inch (8- to 50-millimeter) widths niche numerous net-like veins.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 offers Dall sheep, whose taxonomy obliges Alaska-exploring naturalist William Healey Dall (Aug. 21, 1845-Mar 27, 1927), perhaps observing September snow willow.

Circular, elliptic, oblong, subcircular leaves perch atop black-red, 0.11811- to 1.81102-inch (3- to 46-millimeter) stems possessing May- through August-prettifying catkins (from Dutch katteken, “little cat”).

Pink-purple-green, 6-plus-flowering, female-subshrub, pistillate (from Latin pistillum, “pestle”), pollen-receiving catkins quarter 0.433071- to 3.11024-inch (11- to 79-millimeter) lengths and 0.11811- to 0.314961-inch (3- to 8-millimeter) widths. Yellow, male-subshrub, pollen-producing, staminate (from Latin stamen -atus, “distaff-thread-/loom-warp-having”) catkins reveal 0.433071- to -inch (11- to 54-millimeter) lengths and 0.15748- to 0.354331-inch (4- to 9-millimeter) widths. Fruit capsules with short-lived seeds that spell sowing surface soils and suggest germination within two to three weeks secure 0.177165- to 0.19685-inch (4.5- to 5-millimeter) sizes.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps team Dall sheep with tasty September snow willow, a leafy, twiggy treat year-round in the summer- and in the winter-time.

Salix reticulata (from Latin salix rēticulātus, “willow net-like”) subshrubs, affirmed commonly as net-leaved and snow willow and taxonomically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), agree with Dall sheep year-round. They align with other dwarf-willow shrubs along Alaskan and northwest Canadian ridges even as tall-willow shrubs ally with streamsides and with swales amassed between spur ridges; Salix reticulata L. (A; upper) and Salix herbacea L. (B; lower), illustrated by Swedish botanist and botanical artist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (April 6, 1856-June 21, 1928) in A. (August) Mentz and C.H. (Carl Hansen) Ostenfeld, Billeder af Nordens Flora (1917-1923), II Tavler Nr. 269-519, Plate 382: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

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