The U.S. Forest Service said Friday that "superheated pieces of a catalytic converter came into contact with dry, roadside vegetation" on the shoulder of Highway 140, along the Merced River.
and C. A. Mey is high valued annual ornamental and medicinal plant from Lamiaceae family that prefers dry sunny hillsides, roadsides, slopes, and fallow fields over an altitude of 500 2150 m.
Large populations, which may consist of tens of thousands of individuals densely spread over several hundred hectares, occur for 1 to 3 years after fires in sage-juniper habitats, and much smaller populations often persist in roadsides, dry washes, and other disturbed areas [ 5, 7, 8].
There are some areas, like Chicago, that have not seen a spike in roadside service calls from drivers with dry tanks, but roadside assistance agencies said the calls had increased so sharply coast-to-coast that they started monitoring closely for repeat callers.
It tends to favour dry pasturage and roadside banks, and the blooms range from white to pale pink.
A total of 19 soil samples (prefixed S) was collected January, 2014, during dry seasons from roadside surface soils of Hemayetpur to Gabtoli area, Savar of Dhaka Aricha highway (Fig. 1).
Ecology: Dry, disturbed areas including roadsides, railways, vacant lots; Elevation: generally < 1000 m.
CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: A weed of dry gravelly soil, on roadsides and in waste places ; scarce.
