May 102013
AUDUBON WILDFLOWERS CALENDAR 2013
They bloom in mountain meadows, woodlands, prairies, even the driest deserts—wildflowers are vibrant but ephemeral beauties, embellishing landscapes with strokes of color before disappearing for another year. With a dozen photographs that capture wildflowers in their native environments, this calendar is a tribute to North America’s loveliest blooms. Beds of Dune Evening Primrose spread over a sandy California desert. Yellow Arnica and pink Monkeyflower grow unrestrained in a mountain field. A
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Nice pictures but not completely reliable,
The Audubon Wildflower calendars are typically always nicely done and feature an excellent variety of color and lighting across many different landscapes.
The information that accompanies the pictures isn’t however always accurate. An example in the 2013 calendar is the April 2013 description associated with the picture of “Slickrock Paintbrush” from Arches National Park. The picture claims to be of Castilleja chromosa but rather it is Castilleja scabrida var. scabrida (which, less importantly, has the common name of Eastwood’s paintbrush). The discussion then becomes further misleading and the map incorrect since Castilleja scabrida has a much smaller range than does Castilleja chromosa. It is true that both species occur in the vicinity where the pictures were taken and are often confused with one another, but that makes this kind of error even worse given that it comes from a trusted source, i.e. Audubon.
I would still generally recommend these calendars to plant admirers despite the inaccuracies.
P.S. Scientific names should be italicized but that facility appears to be unavailable when commenting here.
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|Great photography, nice details,
I appreciate the thematic consistency of each month’s photographs. Species are seasonally appropriate, and calendar notes moon phases and major holidays.
An improvement opportunity would to include the dates of previous or subsequent months in the “white space”, but with a lower-contrast font color. Sierra Club used to do this, and it came in handy.
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|Beautiful Pictures,
Beautiful pictures, nice bold numbering on the calendar page, interesting tidbits of information about the flowers pictured. I would highly recommend this.
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