{"id":3779,"date":"2009-08-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/hanging-gardens\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:57:26","slug":"hanging-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/08\/11\/hanging-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7163\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hanging-garden.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Hanging Gardens\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hanging-garden.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Hanging-garden-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\">Hanging garden in western Colorado \u2013 photo by Jodie Bell.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Hanging-garden communities are known from Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, where they are typically associated with canyon walls and cliff faces. These highly localized environments are found in canyonlands where perennial water sources provide a stable source of moisture within a surrounding arid environment, forming pocketed wetlands and allowing the draping of vegetation across wet cliff faces. The associated wetland species are typically herbaceous, and often include species endemic to the Colorado Plateau. Common species include northern maidenhair (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Adiantum pedatum<\/span>), common maidenhair (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Adiantum capillus-veneris<\/span>), Eastwood&#8217;s monkeyflower (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mimulus eastwoodiae<\/span>), seep monkeyflower (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mimulus guttatus<\/span>), hanging garden sullivantia (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Sullivantia hapemanii<\/span> var. <span style=\"font-style: italic\">pupusii<\/span>), Rydberg&#8217;s thistle (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Cirsium rydbergii<\/span>), and several species of columbine (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Aquilegia<\/span>).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7164\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/PDSAX0X013_close-up.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Sullivantia hapemanii var. purpusii\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/PDSAX0X013_close-up.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/PDSAX0X013_close-up-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Sullivantia hapemanii<\/span> var. <span style=\"font-style: italic\">purpusii<\/span>, the Hanging Garden sullivantia<br \/>\nphoto by Janis Huggins<\/span><\/div>\n<p>NatureServe and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program recognize two distinct groups of hanging-garden communities, characterized by geology and species composition. Those of the Utah High Plateau ecoregion are associated with springs, seeps, and waterfalls formed in calcareous formations, especially shales of the Green River Formation, while those of the Colorado Plateau ecoregion further south are associated with cliffs where water percolating through the stone reaches the surface along joints between impervious strata in massive sandstone deposits such as the Navajo and Entrada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanging garden in western Colorado \u2013 photo by Jodie Bell. 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