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Melampus Daisy
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name....
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Autumnal Acorns
I’ll let you know how this all goes. I have many acorns to plant, but I like growing little oaks and we’ve done this...
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Milkweed Longhorn Beetle
I learned that there are twenty-six species of milkweed longhorn beetles (Tetraopes spp.) and up to fifteen of those are in the US. I...
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Mariosousa millefolia
Santa Rita Acacia or Mariosousa millefolia is found in the borderlands of Arizona and Sonora between 3,000 and 5,000 ft. Hey, two different countries...
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Childhood, Wildhood
This is a repetey that I really like. It’s a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. My father took the...
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The Handsome, But Rank Senna
It’s a little bit of a leap from talking about a plant in the aster family to talking about Senna in the pea family....