OPB Article on the Hybrid Beachgrass

Our iNaturalist project was featured on OPB! Check out the article which describes our discovery of a hybrid beachgrass and encourages people to help out by joining the iNaturalist search.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/01/hybrid-beachgrass-could-mean-trouble-for-northwest-coast/

Jes Burns, the journalist who reported our story, shared this wonderful analogy for hybrid vigor on twitter:
"I learned a new concept reporting this story: hybrid vigor.
It's like if Space Ghost & Aquaman had a baby that was able to breathe in lava, not just H2O & in space.

In OR, a newly confirmed hybrid beachgrass is taller than both its invasive parents."

Posted on 01 de junho de 2021, 09:10 PM by rmostow