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.
Mammalogy was one of my favorite courses back in my college days. It was 1968 (early Anthropocene) and there were…
I neglected to mention that milkweeds are no longer in their own family Asclepiadaceae, but have now been included in the dogbane family Apocynaceae....
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...
