What Shall be the Next Feature?

That’s what we were debating just now. Some wanted thistles because thistles, just like Silphium, is fun to pronounce with a lisp. Others wanted to do Hymenopappus. Does anybody agree with Crumby that Hymeno would be a great name for a baby?

Well. The plain fact is that we have more new plants surviving at the CB this year than maybe ever. Maybe, the paintbrush has produced some seed. There’s lots more Nemophila this year than ever before. For the first time there’s Tinantia. We have tons of Onosmodium. This year, we have two populations of Hymenopappus scabiosaeus and not all the plants have been eaten. We got some seed already. Then also we have reintroduced Cirsium texanum and that is fixing to set seed too. Goodness! You just can’t beat a Cirsium thistle when it comes to lisping.

Say Cirsium thistle!

But in the end, Crumby got his way. So we decided on Hymenopappus, another superb plant genus for the bug lover. Also, Crumby wanted to show how his camera lets him down when the clouds, cloud Ogma’s visage so to speak.

Cyodisia atrivitta, the Halloween moth, on Hymenoppaus scabiosaeus