At 7 pm on May 20, Dr. James Smith from the Snake River Plains Herbarium at Boise State University will present recent research on spring parsley (Pseudocymopterus) that indicates the spring flowering and summer flowering populations are separate species.
Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public. This meeting can be attended via Zoom or in person at the NAU biology building third floor classroom. To attend via Zoom, register with this link: https://bit.ly/FlagAZNPS25
Spring parsley (Pseudocymopterus) is known to be highly variable morphologically and in its phenology. Dr. James Smith will present preliminary results that separate what we commonly call Pseudocymopterus montanus into several separate well-supported clades. Likewise there will be preliminary phylogenetic analyses that seem to separate most other species of Pseudocymopterus (P. beckii, P. macdougallii, and P. davidsonii) into spring flowering and summer (monsoon) flowering populations that have independently adapted to the different precipitation patterns.
This will be a virtual event with Dr. Smith presenting from Idaho. This presentation will not be recorded.
Dr. Smith is the Director of the Snake River Plains Herbarium at Boise State University. His research interests include the phylogenetics of western North American Apiaceae and using Sanger sequencing, and more recently Next generation sequencing techniques to discover cryptic or near cryptic species within many widespread species.
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