Petey can’t get to the mountains, but the mountains come to him. Lucky dude.
Monarda menthaefolia or bee balm is a spectacular wildflower. Well worth a trip into a pine forest to find it. And, by the way, an excellent nectar plant for butterflies, if that is of interest to you. Anyway, I feel so fortunate that I found one growing way downstream from any pine forest and it made my day.
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family,...
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants,...
False Solomon’s seal (and a dozen other common names!) was formerly in Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are…
