Petey smells a wonderful odor while driving down the highway to work. “Devil’s Claw!” he shouts and decides he will be late for work. Let’s listen.
The Proboscidea flower photo is by Liz Makings. Th others are Petey’s.
Monkey flowers are in the Figwort Family (Scrophulariaceae). The species I’m jabbering about in this show is called seep monkey flower or Mimulus guttatus....
I think I should have called this show, “infundibula, blah, blah, blah”, and though I love to poke fun at the terms, the truth...
In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua…
