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Pink-flowers plants of Castilleja sessiliflora, with a colorful sunset in the background

Floral trait divergence in Castilleja

Read more about this work in Castilleja sessiliflora and the C. purpruea complex in AJB, Oikos, and Ecology & Evolution, as well as in the scarlet paintbrush C. coccinea.

A bumblebee on a flower of Castilleja purpurea, with its tongue extended and pollen on its head

Pollination ecology of Castilleja

Connecting floral color and scent, gene expression, and pollinator responses in polymorphic monkeyflowers

Read about this work in Nature Communications.

A flowering plant of Castilleja pilosa var. pilosa with pale green flowers, with snow-capped mountains in the background

Biotic and abiotic drivers of floral phenotypic and genomic variation in species complexes

Stay tuned to hear more about our findings from my NSF PRFB Fellowship project, focusing on the Castilleja pilosa species complex & C. sessiliflora.

Scent pumps collected floral scent samples from flowers of Mimulus cardinalis in a lab

Evolution of floral scent and pollination mode in Mimulus section Erythranthe

Find out more about this work here and here.

A Hyles lineata hawkmoth visiting pink flowers of Castilleja sessiliflora

Molecular ecology and genetic consequences of pollination mode in Castilleja

A hybrid Gymnadenia orchid with bright magenta flowers growing in a meadow in the Alps

Reproductive isolation and hybridization among Gymnadenia orchids

Check out a preprint of this work.

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