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Monday Mystery Revealed…
The answer to the mystery from Edith Wallace is: Monarda and tall sunflower.
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OK, no more long distance ID-ing of composites from photos for me. 🙂
Who planted those sunflowers while I wasn’t looking? But we do have Heliopsis (Ox-eye or false sunflower) as well. I have actually photographed the pistils of the ray flowers (true sunflowers don’t have ’em). I must investigate.
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OK, no more long distance ID-ing of composites from photos for me. 🙂
Who planted those sunflowers while I wasn’t looking? But we do have Heliopsis (Ox-eye or false sunflower) as well. I have actually photographed the pistils of the ray flowers (true sunflowers don’t have ’em). I must investigate.