Apium leptophyllum Is Delicious

Most of the Apium leptophyllum now gracing the CB arrived many years ago with the now deceased buffalograss.  Did you know that buffalograss won't grow everywhere?  Did you know that buffalogras is a weak sister?

That buffalograss sod was expensive and now most of it is dead.  Dead I tell you.  But the Apium has thrived despite heavy grazing.  Heavy I tell you. 

Here is some of the CB Apium thriving.  Mercy.  Most all the herbage in the foreground and along the fence is Apium.  It's the dominant plant, for heaven's sake.

And here, as we look closer at the Apium leptophyllum is its principal  grazer;   Papilio Polyxenes, the black swallowtail caterpillar. The CB presently features a great many of these caterpillars.  Hundreds, I tell you, maybe.