herbarium
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(Erodium cicutarium) Here is the clock plant,some call it filaree.Its seed tails – the styles – spiral around each other in a long,slight twine.Five petals turninto five seeds and five styles,looking like one spike.On a hot day the styles will peel apartand pop! into the air.The seeds spring,tails following,the pointy end of each seed going…
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“Conversation with Filaree,” #3 of my herbarium, arrived yesterday in the mail in this gorgeous volume of Dark Mountain: http:/dark-mountain.net/blog/key-posts/dark-mountain-issue-9/.
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On a triangular traffic island, a patch of dandelion orbs glows, neo-moons to a streetlight and a gas-station’s neon. Inside each sphere, along the inner fringe of the outer shell hues shift with each yellow, red, and green traffic signal. Then, poof! The seedheads disintegrate, taking flight on a truck-made wind. She gave him a…