I studied quillworts in grad school at ODU. There is (or was) an ephemeral creek in VA that had a complete mat of Isoetes during winter. And there are some in GA (endangered) that grow in pools on granite outcrops. Cool plant.
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I studied quillworts in grad school at ODU. There is (or was) an ephemeral creek in VA that had a complete mat of Isoetes during winter. And there are some in GA (endangered) that grow in pools on granite outcrops. Cool plant.
I love looking at the designs of various lycopods' micro- & megaspores. The eFloras pg includes spore drawings.😍 Isoetes flaccida, the Florida quillwort, whose spore you can see at the link w/ others, is found mostly in clear ponds & slow-moving streams in GA & FL.
www.efloras.org/object_page....
www.efloras.org/object_page....
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I love looking at the designs of various lycopods' micro- & megaspores. The eFloras pg includes spore drawings.😍 Isoetes flaccida, the Florida quillwort, whose spore you can see at the link w/ others, is found mostly in clear ponds & slow-moving streams in GA & FL.
www.efloras.org/object_page....
www.efloras.org/object_page....
This new work investigates rhizotaxy on 3 rhizomorphic lycopsids including the unusual Mississippian-aged Oxroadia. We highlight the development of rhizotaxy on a juvenile Oxroadia as well as on the extant Isoetes. If you’re interested check out academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This new work investigates rhizotaxy on 3 rhizomorphic lycopsids including the unusual Mississippian-aged Oxroadia. We highlight the development of rhizotaxy on a juvenile Oxroadia as well as on the extant Isoetes. If you’re interested check out academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
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#roots. Fossilized ones. Isoetes
Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social
The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#roots. Fossilized ones. Isoetes
Thanks @wickellomics.bsky.social for the brilliant @instmolplantsci.bsky.social seminar! Fascinating study of CAM evolution and I’m always excited for all things Isoetes.
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thanks @wickellomics.bsky.social for the brilliant @instmolplantsci.bsky.social seminar! Fascinating study of CAM evolution and I’m always excited for all things Isoetes.
A productive couple of hours scouring a shoreline in the rain and sifting through hundreds of broken specimens. Managed to find a handful of #Isoetes quills 😊 and a few invasive non-natives 🙁. #Quillwort
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A productive couple of hours scouring a shoreline in the rain and sifting through hundreds of broken specimens. Managed to find a handful of #Isoetes quills 😊 and a few invasive non-natives 🙁. #Quillwort
Delighted to see lush, green lawns of elegant Lake Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), in the shallows of Ullswater at Howtown. New plant for me, it's to be found in oligotrophic lakes on both sides of Atlantic. Also a bit of Alternate Water-Milfoil & on the bank Yellow Loosestrife. #wildflowerhour 4/7
September 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Delighted to see lush, green lawns of elegant Lake Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), in the shallows of Ullswater at Howtown. New plant for me, it's to be found in oligotrophic lakes on both sides of Atlantic. Also a bit of Alternate Water-Milfoil & on the bank Yellow Loosestrife. #wildflowerhour 4/7
James Melville Macoun https://bionomia.net/Q21519740 collected the holotype ISOETACEAE: Isoëtes maritima in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1804457267 #TypeSpecimenToday
August 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
James Melville Macoun https://bionomia.net/Q21519740 collected the holotype ISOETACEAE: Isoëtes maritima in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1804457267 #TypeSpecimenToday
July 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Less than a week to go until #Botany2025 - as you work on your schedules, check out some of the lab's talks!!
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Less than a week to go until #Botany2025 - as you work on your schedules, check out some of the lab's talks!!
What if you take a weird ancient lycophyte, give it desert-plant-style photosynthesis, and throw it in a cold lake?
You get Isoëtes lacustris
You get Isoëtes lacustris
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What if you take a weird ancient lycophyte, give it desert-plant-style photosynthesis, and throw it in a cold lake?
You get Isoëtes lacustris
You get Isoëtes lacustris
#植物科普# 中华水韭：湿地里的“活化石”在长江中下游的稻田边、沼泽旁，藏着一种比恐龙更古老的“水中精灵”——中华水韭（学名：Isoetes sinensis）。它是我国特有的珍稀蕨类植物，被称为“植物活化石”，见证了亿万年的湿地变迁。形态：像韭菜却更古老的“水中绿剑”中华水韭植株矮小，高仅 ...全文
July 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#植物科普# 中华水韭：湿地里的“活化石”在长江中下游的稻田边、沼泽旁，藏着一种比恐龙更古老的“水中精灵”——中华水韭（学名：Isoetes sinensis）。它是我国特有的珍稀蕨类植物，被称为“植物活化石”，见证了亿万年的湿地变迁。形态：像韭菜却更古老的“水中绿剑”中华水韭植株矮小，高仅 ...全文
📣Now Free Access: Recurrent allopolyploidy and its implications for conservation in vascular plants: a commentary on ‘Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a “diploids-first” approach...’
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
📣Now Free Access: Recurrent allopolyploidy and its implications for conservation in vascular plants: a commentary on ‘Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a “diploids-first” approach...’
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
📣Now Free Access: Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a ‘diploids-first’ approach to conservation
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📣Now Free Access: Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a ‘diploids-first’ approach to conservation
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Meet Melanie: she´s the good soul of the working group and our secret star. Nothing works without her & everything works with her. Our technician can do everything & saves the rest of us from putting our foot in our mouths. She is also into plant conservation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W...#isoetes
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Meet Melanie: she´s the good soul of the working group and our secret star. Nothing works without her & everything works with her. Our technician can do everything & saves the rest of us from putting our foot in our mouths. She is also into plant conservation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W...#isoetes
Inis bó finne is something else - great bird life, relatively invasive species free (which is like a yoga retreat for me 😅), good Guinness and was happy to see this Isoetes sp. today (no macrospores to be more sure on species)... Will start hunting it in home lakes as seo amach
May 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Inis bó finne is something else - great bird life, relatively invasive species free (which is like a yoga retreat for me 😅), good Guinness and was happy to see this Isoetes sp. today (no macrospores to be more sure on species)... Will start hunting it in home lakes as seo amach
No bird stuff, but important work for the #conservation of an endangered plant species by our technician Melanie Willen [video in German language only]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W... #isoetes
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May 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
No bird stuff, but important work for the #conservation of an endangered plant species by our technician Melanie Willen [video in German language only]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W... #isoetes
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Updating the distribution of the genus Isoetes (Isoetaceae) in southern Spain (Córdoba, Andalusia) (68 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fc4c339b-db62-46aa-ac68-9e5626155402
April 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Updating the distribution of the genus Isoetes (Isoetaceae) in southern Spain (Córdoba, Andalusia) (68 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fc4c339b-db62-46aa-ac68-9e5626155402
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoëtes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
April 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoëtes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
How about the experiment? Successful? Did you follow some kind of germination protocol for Isoetes?
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How about the experiment? Successful? Did you follow some kind of germination protocol for Isoetes?
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoetes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
April 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoetes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoetes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
April 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Phylogenetics and population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of Isoetes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40237371/
#Phylogenetics & population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of #Isoëtes
New #AJB research by Forrest Freund, Daniel Gates, Matthew Johnson & @crothfels.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics #biogeography #evolution
New #AJB research by Forrest Freund, Daniel Gates, Matthew Johnson & @crothfels.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics #biogeography #evolution
April 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#Phylogenetics & population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of #Isoëtes
New #AJB research by Forrest Freund, Daniel Gates, Matthew Johnson & @crothfels.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics #biogeography #evolution
New #AJB research by Forrest Freund, Daniel Gates, Matthew Johnson & @crothfels.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics #biogeography #evolution
Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing.
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing.
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology