Petey fights the blues with a walk among plant friends. Weirdo.
Bumelia is one of those plants that seems so out of place. A “what the heck?” sort of plant. The species ranges from Florida, across the southern states and ending up in southeastern Arizona, its most western location. There are some beautiful thickets of Bumelia along arroyos in the desert grassland between Gleeson and Tombstone. You should go look.
Burroweed is in the Asteraceae. In the olden days…well, it wasn’t that long ago… some botanists had the sunflower family (Compositae) split up into...
It’s nice to have a yard full of native plants. Most of the time I have an idea what and where I want to...
Bristlehead (Carphochaete bigelovii) is a small shrub that I’m not sure I would have recognized without the flowers and bristles. I wonder if I’ve...
