Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae

September 03, 2024 00:04:19
Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae

Sep 03 2024 | 00:04:19

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Show Notes

How fortuitous to come across Gregg’s mistflower out in the desert scrub during the Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae! What a beautiful plant. Oh, and by the way, this mist flower’s botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii. That was fun, because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I ran out of time. The photos are mine.  

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