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Post by nwflytrap on Aug 19, 2013 21:10:56 GMT -5
Went for a hike this weekend. While walking over some clumps of moss growing from cracks in the rocks, I saw some nice bright green plants that look an awful lot like the pings I've been trying to locate up here for 3 years. Can I get a verification?
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Post by 31drew31 on Aug 19, 2013 21:20:43 GMT -5
Yup those are Pings, nice find!
P. vulgaris maybe? Any others grow in Ontario?
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Post by lloyd on Aug 19, 2013 23:09:45 GMT -5
Nice picture, what's the location? Any background shots?
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Post by H2O on Aug 20, 2013 1:10:25 GMT -5
Nice shots, P. vulgaris all the way. They only other Ping Ontario has is P. villosa, not about to get those two mixed up!
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Post by nwflytrap on Aug 20, 2013 21:25:47 GMT -5
The patches of shrubbery at the right are where the pings are. Lake Superior to the left. Sibley Peninsula. Last place I was expecting to find them.
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Post by shoggoths on Aug 20, 2013 22:04:32 GMT -5
Nice pics and seem a really nice place too!
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Post by 31drew31 on Aug 20, 2013 22:11:59 GMT -5
Very cool!
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Post by canuk1w1 on Aug 22, 2013 11:47:16 GMT -5
Now you've got me thinking about doing a field trip to Quetico or Killarney next summer...
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Post by bradt on Aug 25, 2013 23:28:26 GMT -5
That is a very cool find! I'm yet to see a CP in the wild.
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Post by LucST on Aug 26, 2013 12:20:52 GMT -5
Brad we should go on an adventure to Jordan River or Tofino some time.
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Post by dvg on Aug 27, 2013 14:10:08 GMT -5
Great to see these plants in situ and in unexpected spots. Thanks for sharing NWflytrap. dvg
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Post by Apoplast on Feb 4, 2015 22:53:07 GMT -5
Hi James - Old thread, but I just came across it. Nice find on the P. vulgaris! That species is has a circumboreal distribution, but there is a disjunct population that lives on the shores of the northern part of the Great Lakes. We have exactly 6 sites on the shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. There are a few more across into Wisconsin, and several others in 'da UP. Then a few that make it down into Lake Huron in Michigan. It's part of the same group that ranges out into New England and southern Quebec. You can see a good map of this here. I'm always amazed by how well these little plants cling to the rocks along the big lake. I've been out there when the gales are whipped up in November, and the surf is pounding their little colonies. In the spring, they are still holing on to the same cracks in the rocks! I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of the arctic lineage of pings lose their roots when they go dormant in their hibernacula for the winter. I've seen P. vulgaris included in this group. Supposedly it allows the plants to distribute in spring meltwater. I have to imagine if this is true in other populations of P. vulgaris, it can't be true of the lake population. It would be interesting to study the differences across the geographic range of this southern population and how variable this trait is (assuming I am remembering this correctly of course).
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Post by Devon on Feb 5, 2015 1:13:50 GMT -5
Fantastic find, thanks for sharing!
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Post by curlingguy on Feb 25, 2015 13:34:35 GMT -5
In general I would PM someone from the forum who would like go see them and whom you trust. The problem is that if you post the location on a public forum some moron may go rip them all out. I believe this happened to some cephs in Australia when their exact location was publicized.
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