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2841 - AlpenPix (Wild) - 2010-12-09 (Dimension: 1742 x 2338 pixels - Counter: 4504) Linnaea borealis Locality: USA - Colorado - Peak 7 area, Summit County, Colorado, elevation 10,000 feet. Photographer: Jane Hendrix Note: According to the Linnean Society (http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=381), Linnaea borealis was orignally named "Campanula serpyllifolia" in 1596 by Caspar Bauhin, Gronovius later renamed it in honor of Carl Linnaeus' contribution to taxonomy. Commenting on this honor, Linnaeus made the following, self-deprecating remark in Species Plantarium in 1753: "Linnaea was named by the celebrated Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant and disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it." (Click on the picture to enlarge) |