Petey feels the need to jabber about three different wildflowers. This better be interesting.
We did not have good winter rains and what wildflowers we’ve gotten this spring are courtesy of one good rain event. One good rainy day is an event. So the flourishing flowers mentioned were helped out by that event. And listen, if you were to have only one native wildflower in your pollinator garden, and that would be very sad indeed, but it should be Eupatorium now Conoclinum greggii. And it is grown commercially! How cool is that? Very cool.
I learned that there are twenty-six species of milkweed longhorn beetles (Tetraopes spp.) and up to fifteen of those are in the US. I...
Lesquerella is named in honor of Leo Lesquereaux and Wikipedia reminds me that he was a “Swiss bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany.”...
When I initially wrote this story I was using Lyman Benson’s The Cactus of Arizona as my reference and the queen of the night...
