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‹ Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Windy Day Bristlehead

April 11, 2023
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Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Windy Day Bristlehead
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Bristlehead (Carphochaete bigelovii) is a small shrub…a subshrub…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…maybe.
Anyway, a really nice native plant common in the borderlands and especially common if you recognize it.
The photos are mine and taken on a windy spring day.

 


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Asteraceae,   bristlehead,   Carphochaete bigelovii,   Growing Native,   KXCI,   Petey Mesquitey,  

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