Windy Day Bristlehead

March 28, 2025 00:04:15
Windy Day Bristlehead
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Windy Day Bristlehead

Mar 28 2025 | 00:04:15

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Show Notes

Bristlehead (Carphochaete bigelovii) is a small shrub that I’m not sure I would have recognized without the flowers and bristles. I wonder if I’ve wandered by this species many times before wondering what the heck it was. The flowers and bristles that helped my ID are contained in a very cool looking long involucre and I read that the throats of the flowers are “purplish” and the petals are white which may explain my fumbling over the color of the flowers. Anyway, a nice native plant common in the borderlands and especially common if you recognize it. The photos are…

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