Monday, November 23, 2009

Lorlee, this is for you


We leave it to Dallas horticulturist Lorlee Bartos to identify this fine floral addenda to the backyard. The morning's sun brightened the soft seeds of this unidentified plant. Not unlike fine dandelion furr, the plant molts and spreads its seeds wherever the wind may carry it, including a nearby pond, where it floats, scum-like, until a willing volunteer scoops it away. What is this beautiful, pillowy native plant, my dear advisor?