Wildflower Pollination
The Pollination Home Page, up to now, has mostly been about managed pollination of our cultivated crops. This fall of the year 2000, we are introducing a new section on pollination of wild plants, some of these endangered, and their pollinators... many native bees and leps. More and more papers are being published on the internet, and we will try to reference these in this section. Some databases that have pollination info, and images will also be indexed as much as we can.
The general internet search engines are wonderful, but limited. The internet has grown so fast (and the rate of growth is increasing), that no one can index all that is present. We won't make any pretenses that we will either, but we'll try to pull together a body of references on this one topic, to make it easier for researchers to find info. We may also reference some works published in traditional channels, but these are also accessible thruough traditional channels, so we aren't going to focus on them.
Eventually this list will have to take the form of a database, but for now, it will just grow, as it is still searchable from the title page, using Google. The primary search term will be the Genus name. There will be some cross references to other parts of The Pollination Home Page.
If you have written a paper on wild plant pollination, or maintain a database, or have photographs or drawings pertaining to pollination, and these are published on the web, please notify us of the address and we'll try to reference them here. (Disclaimer: this reference is for the convenience of the researchers and no representation of the quality of the information is made. As with most internet resources, determination of the quality of the information is up to the user.)
Databases:
Wildflower/pollinator database
by Adalbert Goertz, Colorado naturalist
Pictorial Plant/pollinator database at The
Pollination Home Page
Bee Plants:
South Carolina Bee Plants
Northwestern US Bee
Plants Xerces Society
Researching and
protecting flower/pollinator communities in the desert Grist
magazine
North American Tree Guide Has range
maps and other ID aids
Rare
Plant Pollination in Apalachicola National Forest, Florida
Specific Plants
Calathea:
Bee visits to Costa Rica
Calluna vulgaris
Heather Pollinated by many species
Clethra alnifolia
Sweet Pepper Bush attractive to many species of pollinators
Coryanthus
Pollination by Euglossine Bees
Cypripedium reginae Walter
Showy lady's-slipper, queen lady's-slipper WI
Galtheria
procumbens Wintergreen MN pollination by bumblebees
Gaylussacia
baccata Huckleberry pollination by andrenid bees, bumblebees, honeybees
Geranium
Pollinators in Russia
Hymenocallis coronaria Cahaba lily, pollination by the plebian
sphinx moth, Paratrea plebeja
Iris pseudacorus:
yellow flag pollination
Orchid pollinators
Plantanthera sp. Plant/Pollinator
Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes Clemson, SC
Nymphaea odorata:
Fragrant water lily has a strategy to prevent self fertilization
Pilostyles thurberi: an
internal plant parasite whose flowers burst thru the stem for pollination CA
Ratibida
columnifera Upright prarie coneflower pollinated by andrenid bees
Scutellaria
floridana Chapman Florida skullcap Family Lamiaceae
S. Georgia endangered
Solidago sp Goldenrod
Pollinator images SC
Victoriana amazonica: Hand
pollinating a water lily
Yucca sp and its
pollination by a moth
Specific Pollinators
Prosoeca
peringueyi (Diptera: Nemestrinidae) pollination guild in southern Africa
Galleries (Many flowers that are important to pollinators are
regarded as weeds.)
Hundreds of photos of
western US wildflowers
Principles of Weed Science (syllabus)
Identification and photos.
New Jersey Agricultural Weed Gallery
Pictorial Plant/pollinator database at The
Pollination Home Page
Wildflower Seed Dealers
Easyliving Wildflowers MO
USA