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Tamarisk flower, Yampa River, Colorado
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Wayne Wurtsbaugh
Registered: January 2000
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A beautiful tamarisk flower, Yampa River, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado/Utah. The plant is an exotic and has many negative influences on the ecology of desert ecosystems. It often covers sandbars that were once plant-free, and in other cases crowds out native species of riparian vegetation.
Photo: 4 July 2010.
Limnology: The study of inland waters
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| · Date: July 5, 2010 · Views: 5,145 · Filesize: 62.6kb, 367.2kb · Dimensions: 576 x 768 ·
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Keywords: exotic, plants, river, riparian, invasive, plant, limnology
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