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NATURAL SCIENCE: PLANTS

drawn for the West Eugene Wetlands Partnership’s (WEWP) education program the plant upon which the Fender’s Blue Butterfly depends, drawn for the WEWP program one of Oregon’s carnivorous plants, digests small insects to provide adequate food due to its growing location in nitrogen-depleted soils. This plant is also used as a homeopathic remedy and was one experimented upon by Darwin. is another carnivorous plant, although only during its early growth. It produces a sticky residue on its sprouting seedcoat to capture insects and tiny soil mites to provide food, until it is able to produce chlorophyll when it grows its first set of leaves. It is also used as an herbal remedy, as well. is a non-native invasive plant species that has negative implacs on the richness of wetlands areas in Oregon. found as far north as southern Oregon. Done in pen and ink and colored pencil. Symplocarpus foetidus, showing flowering spathe and leaves Pinus contorta is often contorted, and is sometimes called Krummholz. Discovered by David Douglass at the Columbia River in 1826, he applied the contorta species name.