[MPWG] Today is United Nations World Environment Day and NSF is running an article on a North American medicinal plant! American Ginseng

[De Angelis, Patricia]

On World Environment Day and Every Day, the Stress of Being Ginseng

*Common medicinal plant of deciduous forests under siege*

*June 5, 2013*

*This article is the sixth in a series on NSF's Long Term Research in
Environmental Biology (LTREB) awards. Visit parts
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*, **four*<http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125194&org=NSF>
, *and **five*<http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?preview=y&cntn_id=126853>
*.*

We entered a vale at 5 o'clock, then crossed a run and rode along a rich
level for several miles, and under the delightful protection of very tall
trees that brought us to a creek...where we lodged surrounded by ginseng.

*--*John Bartram, 1751, *Travels from Pensilvania to Onandaga, Oswego and
Lake Ontario in Canada*

Being surrounded by ginseng--a low-growing green-leafed herb of North
American forests--may have been common in 1751, but today? Ginseng is under
siege.
Full article:
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128122&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

For more on World Environment Day (WED), see: http://www.unep.org/wed/about/


Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance
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703-358-1708 x1753
FAX: 703-358-2276

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