Feb. 21, 2018
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The spurge approach to pollination is interesting. All of them have little inconspicuous flowers, with larger, usually colored bracts to attract bugs. Not your usual flowers. Some of them, like flowering spurge, poinsettia, and fire or snow-on-the-mountain are very beautiful. Maybe we're the ones with too much hubris, dissecting and naming all these parts of nature's beauty.
The view counter for this site just clicked over 50,000. Not very many for the web world. But fun to have happen for my birthday. Still here pushing daisies rather than pushing them up.
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Hi Denise
Just thinking it's almost time to come look for Platanthera flava. Bob
Hi Bob:
I found it on Eber Rd, about 1.5 mi S. of Kitty Todd Preserve 1/4 mi from Metroparks land. I’m guessing it came in on the RR. (NwOhio)
Apparently so, but not on all plants. The brown only shows a little in this image.
Regarding umber pussytoes, one reference calls it brown-brackted pussytoes. Are it's bracts browner than other pussytoes?