Wildflower

Violet may be shrinking as state's official flower
Author(s): Bob Groves
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) . (May 25, 2007): News: pA01.
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Byline: BOB GROVES, STAFF WRITER
New Jersey's state flower could disappear by the end of the century, a
victim of global warming, the National Wildlife Federation warns.
The common blue meadow violet which the New Jersey Legislature made
the official state flower in 1971 could be done in by heat, drought,
deluge and invasive pests, a report from the federation said.
That onslaught could force the violet a wildflower that thrives in the
Garden State's current climate to shift its home ranges northwardand
to higher elevations, said Patty Glick, author of the report,"A
Gardener's Guide to Global Warming."
Other wildflowers, native plants and animals also will be affected,
the federation warned.
"When we see changes in climate,we're likely to see changes in optimum
places where plants can thrive," said Glick, a senior global-warming
specialist for the independent, non-profit conservation organization.
By some estimates, temperatures will rise 4 degrees Fahrenheit in
winter and the summer heat indexcould increase by as much as 10
degrees by the year 2100 in the Northeast United States, the report
said.
Some plants may thrive further north, others might die off altogether,
Glick said.
New Jersey is among 18 states whose state flower is threatened,
including the magnolia in Mississippi, the sagebrush in Nevada and the
black-eyed Susanin Maryland.
Global warming, the gradual rise in the earth's temperature, also
willimpact the official trees of Washington, D.C and 17 states but not
the northern oak of New Jersey.
Many of the nation's 91 million home gardeners already are seeing
warning signs of global warming, such as plants leafing out and
blooming earlier, Glick said. Birds and butterflies also arebreeding
and migrating earlier, she said.
The violet may flee increased ultraviolet sunlight, but that could be
the least of our worries, plant specialists in New Jersey said.
"Everything is threatened," said Lena Struwe, a botanist and director
of the Chrysler Herbariumat Rutgers University. "Maybe half of all
species in the U.S. are threatened. Who knows?
"I'm not an expert on violets," Struwe said. "But personally, I worry
less about the state flower of New Jersey, and maybe that wemight not
be able to produce food, because of the change in the forests, the
coastlands and wetlands."
But it will take something bigger than violets, or the cherry trees in
Princeton that blossomed unnaturally early last Christmas "tomake
people in New Jersey realizeglobal warming is a serious problem,"
Struwe said.
Nancy Bristow, the wildflower specialist at the New Jersey Botanical
Garden in Ringwood, doesn't need convincing.
"Global warming is probably going to hurt a lot of plants," Bristow
said. "Certainly most of our wildflowers will be in trouble.
"We had a terribly dry summer a few years ago," she said. "It hurt an
awful lot of things."
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Guarding a garden
Fight global warming in your garden:
* Remove invasive plants and insect pests.
* Reduce water consumption.
* Compost kitchen and garden waste.
* Plant rooftop gardens, and planttrees around the house.
* Create a "rain garden" to catch storm-water runoff.
* Use electric or hand tools.
* Use compact fluorescent lights and solar-powered products.
Source: National Wildlife Federation
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E-mail: groves@northjersey.com
CAPTION(S):
PHOTO - N.J. violets are on nature's hit list.
By BOB GROVES, STAFF WRITER
Source Citation
Groves, Bob. "Violet may be shrinking as state's official flower."
Record [Bergen County, NJ] 25 May 2007: A01. General OneFile . Web. 10
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