{"id":1862,"date":"2019-08-14T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2019-08-14T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:07:50","slug":"do-you-grow-ratibida-columnifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/2019\/08\/do-you-grow-ratibida-columnifera\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you grow Ratibida columnifera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I recently received a request from Dr. Matthew Chappell, UGA&#8217;s <\/em><em>Associate Professor and Statewide Extension Specialist (Nursery Crops). He explained that\u00a0Texas A&amp;M has frequently partnered with UGA on native plant projects. They currently have a student project for which they need our help.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The PhD student Kaitlin Hopkins along with Dr. Michael Arnold and Dr.\u00a0Charlie Hall would be\u00a0more than pleased to gain the assistance of your members in our recent research\u00a0venture.\u00a0We are working\u00a0on collecting germplasm for the wildflower species\u00a0<em>Ratibida columnifera<\/em>,\u00a0commonly known as Mexican hat\u00a0or prairie coneflower. This wildflower exhibits a great deal of\u00a0genetic variation and therefore has great\u00a0potential for eventual commercialization. We are\u00a0currently gathering seed of as wide of a variety as we can\u00a0to characterize the potential degree of\u00a0variation in floral and vegetative characteristics from around the\u00a0species\u2019 large native range. Observed\u00a0flower color ranges from solid yellow to\u00a0nearly solid maroon,\u00a0with many variations between. We hope to access germplasm from\u00a0across the state of Texas and from other\u00a0states within the natural population range. We have received\u00a0collections from Central Texas, South Texas,\u00a0and Nebraska.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you wish to contribute by collecting seed, please record the following data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give the collection a numerical code<\/li>\n<li>Date collected<\/li>\n<li>Latitude and longitude of site<\/li>\n<li>Physical description of site (EX: on corner of 123 University road and HWY 6, full sun on a hillside)<\/li>\n<li>Notes describing why the plant was chosen for collection (EX: Flower had double petals, dark red with yellow outline on petals, dense vigorous foliage)<\/li>\n<li>Photo of flower if possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please enclose seed separately for each collection in a fully sealed paper envelope mail via\u00a0conventional mail. We will be happy to reimburse mailing costs if needed.\u00a0\u00a0Please send samples to and mail to:<\/p>\n<p>Attention: Kaitlin Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Texas A &amp; M University<\/p>\n<p>Dept. of Horticultural Sciences<\/p>\n<p>2133 TAMU<\/p>\n<p>College Station, TX 77843-2133<\/p>\n<p>979-845-1499<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a request from Dr. Matthew Chappell, UGA&#8217;s Associate Professor and Statewide Extension Specialist (Nursery Crops). He explained that\u00a0Texas A&amp;M has frequently partnered with UGA on native plant projects. They currently have a student project for which they need our help. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The PhD student Kaitlin Hopkins along with Dr. Michael Arnold and Dr.\u00a0Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}