{"id":20103,"date":"2016-04-20T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:56:27","slug":"as-climate-warms-how-do-we-decide-when-a-plant-is-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20103","title":{"rendered":"As Climate Warms, How Do We Decide When a Plant is Native?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/how_do_we_decide_when_a_plant_is_native_climate_change\/2984\/\">As Climate Warms, How Do We\u00a0Decide When a Plant is Native?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"dek\"><em>The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson&#8217;s home raises questions about whether gardeners can \u2014 or should \u2014 play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On rare occasions, the townsfolk of Amherst, Massachusetts, would catch a glimpse of a ghostly figure dressed in white, leaning over to tend her flowers by flickering lantern light. The mysterious recluse, who was better known to neighbors for her exquisite garden than for her lyric poems that revealed a passionate love of nature, differed from fellow 19th-century American writers whose thinking became the bedrock of modern environmentalism. While Thoreau famously declared wild places to be \u201cthe preservation of the world,\u201d Emily Dickinson was finding nature\u2019s truth and power in an ordinary dandelion.<\/p>\n<p>Among the plants that survive on the family property where Dickinson confined herself for much of her adult life are picturesque old trees called umbrella magnolias (<em>Magnolia tripetala<\/em>) \u2014 so named because their leaves, which can reach two feet long, radiate out from the ends of branches like the spokes of an umbrella.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/images\/features\/Bellemare_Magnolia%20tripetala_Concord,%20MA.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"credit\">Jesse Bellemare<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Umbrella magnolia trees in Concord, Mass.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The trees, believed to have been planted by Emily\u2019s brother Austin, have jumped the garden gate in recent decades and established wild populations not far from the poet\u2019s home. This new location is a couple of hundred miles north of the tree\u2019s native range, centered in the sheltered woods and ravines of the Appalachian Mountains, and is the first evidence that native plant horticulture in the United States \u201cis giving some species a head-start on climate change,\u201d according to Smith College biologist Jesse Bellemare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Climate Warms, How Do We\u00a0Decide When a Plant is Native? The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson&#8217;s home raises questions about whether gardeners can \u2014 or should \u2014 play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. 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