Asteraceae
posted 05/22/13 - I've seen these before but simply had never bothered to look them up. Look at what I've been missing. What a peculiar common name! I wonder what the story is, because it seems like it should be a good one. Trying to google it returns some lewd results. You'll notice I added the fruits/seeds label instead of the flower label. Apparently, the actual flower is a tiny yellow ray flower; it's a native version of the dandelion. I caught the flowering stage a little too late in the bottom center of the first photo. Still, cool beans.
I wanted to note this hike, because I met a local woman online and took her along with me. She searched the internet for Yadon's piperia after seeing flags just like I did. She found my images through flickr [I don't know what to make of their recent changes; it's flashier probably for high phone traffic.], which led to my Yadon's blog posts. We exchanged a couple e-mails and set to meet up. Oddly enough, this is the second time I've actually had a face-to-face with someone I met online because of my Yadon's photos. Has anyone else experienced that with a particular photo set?
ps - Here are links for later, comparing blow-wives with silverpuffs at Sierra Foothill Garden and the inaccurate picture on Wikipedia, which has unfortunately also populated iNaturalist.org and EOL.org. Editing Wikipedia is a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me, so I asked the iNat fellow to correct this in the interest of internet-kind. Even, UCSC Natural Reserves has this incorrectly pictured. Erg!
ps - Here are links for later, comparing blow-wives with silverpuffs at Sierra Foothill Garden and the inaccurate picture on Wikipedia, which has unfortunately also populated iNaturalist.org and EOL.org. Editing Wikipedia is a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me, so I asked the iNat fellow to correct this in the interest of internet-kind. Even, UCSC Natural Reserves has this incorrectly pictured. Erg!
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Prettier than fireworks, I'd say.
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