The Botanists at Crater Lake National Park
by Elizabeth L. Horn
Kalmiopsis Volume 12, 2005 31
Early Interpreters and a Park Flora
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Three botanists who served on the park staff during the 1920s
and 1930s, F. Lyle Wynd, Lincoln Constance, and Elmer Applegate, shaped the
early botanical heritage of Crater Lake National Park, including the first
floras of the Park, the concept of life zones, and informative articles
published in Nature Notes (www.nps.gov/crla/notes).
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Crater Lake currant (Ribes
erythrocarpum) is a narrow endemic found
only in a few Oregon counties and was first
collected by Coville and Leiberg in 1896. It is
an intermediate host for the blister rust on
whitebark pine. Photo by Norm Jensen.
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