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Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 1_020
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Alternative Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 1
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Raymond J. Pool
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Description
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Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
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Identifier
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120712
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Transcription
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20 15 that are common in this stage are Salsola tragus , Ambrosia artem. , Cenchrus , Helianthus pet. , and Malvastrum coccineum . A little later Hymenopappus fil. , Coreopsis , Kuhnia , Lithospermum angustifolium . Anogra latiflorus becomes very abundant at about this time and last of may is very conspicuous in such old fields with the large large white flowers. Coreopsis is very abundant on the edges of swales where it imparts a light green tone to the soil. Salvia lanceolata is also here, and Gama Coccinea in abundance, and Pentstemon acuminatus . By this time Stipa Comata has come in and gives the effect of a grazing pasture to the old field. In early spring the old Cubus with frayed-out leaves are always noticeable in there places. Well defined chunks of A. filifolia are now appearing from old roots and Bouteloua and especially Aristida are working in from the sides of the field. The field is at this time essentialy a Stipa meadow, but from now the B.B. & Aristida come in rapidly and in a few years we get the usual short grass sod well developed and many of the weedy pioneers, if persistent at all, become much less abundant and subordinate to the short grasses. Stragglling plants of the Anogra persist for many year after the establishment of the short grass sod. If the old field is in a windy
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Rights
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