{"id":3478,"date":"2013-10-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/urban-wetland-surprises-denvers-parkfield-park\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:17:32","slug":"urban-wetland-surprises-denvers-parkfield-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2013\/10\/22\/urban-wetland-surprises-denvers-parkfield-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Wetland Surprises: Denver\u2019s Parkfield Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernadette Kuhn, CNHP Botanist<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nWe recently visited Parkfield Park as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA<\/a>-funded wetland assessment project in Denver County. Much to our delight it was teeming with dragonflies, aquatic insects, and waving bulrushes. Our crew of botanists jumped up and down when we discovered floating mats of the world\u2019s smallest flowering plant. The mats were made up of thousands of <i>Wolffia columbiana<\/i> that creating swirly lime-green patterns on the water. Ralph Brooks collected the only known Colorado specimen of <i>W. columbiana<\/i> from Yuma County in 1980. We collected voucher specimens to distribute to regional herbaria.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6118\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/dragonfly_C.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/dragonfly_C.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/dragonfly_C-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">David Leatherman holds a green dragonfly with Billy Bunch (EPA), while<br \/>\n&nbsp;Laura Cascardi and Bernadette Kuhn get distracted by plants. <br \/>\nPhoto by Pam Smith.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6119\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Wolffia_arrows_C.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Wolffia_arrows_C.jpg 396w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Wolffia_arrows_C-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Tiny, almost granular <i>Wolffia columbiana<\/i> plants (indicated by white arrows) <br \/>\nare dwarfed by duckweed, Lemna minor. Photo by B. Kuhn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6120\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tinytoad_c.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tinytoad_c.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tinytoad_c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">A Woodhouse\u2019s toadlet at Parkfield Park. Photo by Pam Smith.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\nBlog readers stay tuned! We will be posting more photos of our Denver urban wetland work throughout the winter.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernadette Kuhn, CNHP Botanist We recently visited Parkfield Park as part of our EPA-funded wetland assessment project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botany","category-ecology","category-wetlands","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}