A fun flower from Montana that looks like a bunch of elephant heads. Pedicularis groenlandica

Built a lamp only to realize it kinda looks like the World Trade Center. Oh well. Guess I’ll make another one to go with it.

Moche Handle Spout Vessel Depicting the Difficulties of Owning a Cat ca. 100 BCE - 500 CE

P. J. F. Turpin's illustration of Goethe’s “Urpflanze” or “primal plant” a hypothetical ancestor plant from which the morphological features of plants were derived. #bloomscrolling

One of my favorite families to keep an out for here in Montana. What's particularly interesting to me is the wildly different degrees of parasitism among members of the same genus. Especially Castilleja. Here's my favorite Orobanchaceae I saw this year.

Keep an eye out for this one as well. The Stanley Brothers never made a bad song but this album stands above the rest for me.

Hospital at Heart Mountain Relocation Center

Love it when these tiny mostly buried plants bloom each year.

"It's surprising how..."

Castilleja angustifolia blooming near Cody, Wyoming.