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                    <![CDATA[Threadleaf Groundsel]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Threadleaf groundsel (Senecio flaccidus var. flaccidus) is really an attractive shrub with its grey foliage and yellow flowers. The variety, S. flaccidus var. monoensis, is quite nice as well with its green foliage and yellow flowers. We’ve found that variety growing in the desert and low hills near Fort Bowie National Historic Site out in Cochise County. I meant to mention in this ramble that in old range plant books and even some floras, it’s noted that this plant is quite poisonous to cattle or horses. Well, this groundsel is found all over the range, so I gotta wonder if livestock…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Threadleaf groundsel (Senecio flaccidus var. flaccidus) is really an attractive shrub with its grey foliage and yellow flowers. The variety, S. flaccidus var. monoensis, is quite nice as well with its green foliage and yellow flowers. We’ve found that variety growing in the desert and low hills near Fort Bowie National Historic Site out in Cochise County. I meant to mention in this ramble that in old range plant books and even some floras, it’s noted that this plant is quite poisonous to cattle or horses. Well, this groundsel is found all over the range, so I gotta wonder if livestock…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Threadleaf Groundsel]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Threadleaf groundsel (Senecio flaccidus var. flaccidus) is really an attractive shrub with its grey foliage and yellow flowers. The variety, S. flaccidus var. monoensis, is quite nice as well with its green foliage and yellow flowers. We’ve found that variety growing in the desert and low hills near Fort Bowie National Historic Site out in Cochise County. I meant to mention in this ramble that in old range plant books and even some floras, it’s noted that this plant is quite poisonous to cattle or horses. Well, this groundsel is found all over the range, so I gotta wonder if livestock…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Threadleaf groundsel (Senecio flaccidus var. flaccidus) is really an attractive shrub with its grey foliage and yellow flowers. The variety, S. flaccidus var. monoensis, is quite nice as well with its green foliage and yellow flowers. We’ve found that variety growing in the desert and low hills near Fort Bowie National Historic Site out in Cochise County. I meant to mention in this ramble that in old range plant books and even some floras, it’s noted that this plant is quite poisonous to cattle or horses. Well, this groundsel is found all over the range, so I gotta wonder if livestock…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:35</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Hummingbird Trumpet]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) is one of my favorite late summer into fall wildflowers to see in the wild. And, in the wild is wonderful, but this wildflower can be found in nurseries too, so get one for your personal habitat to remind you of those wild plants you saw. Yay! The photos are mine and taken on a recent trip into a nearby woodland. I love the shot with the water running through a rocky bed. The plants were spread into the surrounding woods as well.Very cool.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) is one of my favorite late summer into fall wildflowers to see in the wild. And, in the wild is wonderful, but this wildflower can be found in nurseries too, so get one for your personal habitat to remind you of those wild plants you saw. Yay! The photos are mine and taken on a recent trip into a nearby woodland. I love the shot with the water running through a rocky bed. The plants were spread into the surrounding woods as well.Very cool.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Hummingbird Trumpet]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) is one of my favorite late summer into fall wildflowers to see in the wild. And, in the wild is wonderful, but this wildflower can be found in nurseries too, so get one for your personal habitat to remind you of those wild plants you saw. Yay! The photos are mine and taken on a recent trip into a nearby woodland. I love the shot with the water running through a rocky bed. The plants were spread into the surrounding woods as well.Very cool.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) is one of my favorite late summer into fall wildflowers to see in the wild. And, in the wild is wonderful, but this wildflower can be found in nurseries too, so get one for your personal habitat to remind you of those wild plants you saw. Yay! The photos are mine and taken on a recent trip into a nearby woodland. I love the shot with the water running through a rocky bed. The plants were spread into the surrounding woods as well.Very cool.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Here are some clarifications…the scientific name for the long-nosed leopard is Gambelia wislizenii honoring the naturalist of the 1800s William Gambel and Friedrich Wislizenus, an army engineer and plant collector also of the 1800s. I’m surprised that there is no alluding to the leopard like spots on the body, or the long nose, or the very long round tail. It’s not like those two fellows don’t have a bunch of other flora and fauna named for them. Oh well. And, the term “post nuptial blush” refers to the orangish spots found on the female lizard in the spring when she is…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here are some clarifications…the scientific name for the long-nosed leopard is Gambelia wislizenii honoring the naturalist of the 1800s William Gambel and Friedrich Wislizenus, an army engineer and plant collector also of the 1800s. I’m surprised that there is no alluding to the leopard like spots on the body, or the long nose, or the very long round tail. It’s not like those two fellows don’t have a bunch of other flora and fauna named for them. Oh well. And, the term “post nuptial blush” refers to the orangish spots found on the female lizard in the spring when she is…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here are some clarifications…the scientific name for the long-nosed leopard is Gambelia wislizenii honoring the naturalist of the 1800s William Gambel and Friedrich Wislizenus, an army engineer and plant collector also of the 1800s. I’m surprised that there is no alluding to the leopard like spots on the body, or the long nose, or the very long round tail. It’s not like those two fellows don’t have a bunch of other flora and fauna named for them. Oh well. And, the term “post nuptial blush” refers to the orangish spots found on the female lizard in the spring when she is…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here are some clarifications…the scientific name for the long-nosed leopard is Gambelia wislizenii honoring the naturalist of the 1800s William Gambel and Friedrich Wislizenus, an army engineer and plant collector also of the 1800s. I’m surprised that there is no alluding to the leopard like spots on the body, or the long nose, or the very long round tail. It’s not like those two fellows don’t have a bunch of other flora and fauna named for them. Oh well. And, the term “post nuptial blush” refers to the orangish spots found on the female lizard in the spring when she is…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Change is Afoot]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Well, alleluia, it’s feeling “fallish!” Okay, lemme see…the photos are mine of a box turtle track (see the plastron print?), a snake track with the ventral scutes, nicely landscaped kangaroo rat mounds and a Wright’s buckwheat (Eriogonum wrightii). Oh, and I forgot to tell you that the kangaroo rat I so love…well, they’re all lovable, but the large banner tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is prevalent on the land around our place and they are fantastic! Sooo, we gotta talk more about them. Stay tuned.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Well, alleluia, it’s feeling “fallish!” Okay, lemme see…the photos are mine of a box turtle track (see the plastron print?), a snake track with the ventral scutes, nicely landscaped kangaroo rat mounds and a Wright’s buckwheat (Eriogonum wrightii). Oh, and I forgot to tell you that the kangaroo rat I so love…well, they’re all lovable, but the large banner tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is prevalent on the land around our place and they are fantastic! Sooo, we gotta talk more about them. Stay tuned.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Change is Afoot]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Well, alleluia, it’s feeling “fallish!” Okay, lemme see…the photos are mine of a box turtle track (see the plastron print?), a snake track with the ventral scutes, nicely landscaped kangaroo rat mounds and a Wright’s buckwheat (Eriogonum wrightii). Oh, and I forgot to tell you that the kangaroo rat I so love…well, they’re all lovable, but the large banner tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is prevalent on the land around our place and they are fantastic! Sooo, we gotta talk more about them. Stay tuned.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Well, alleluia, it’s feeling “fallish!” Okay, lemme see…the photos are mine of a box turtle track (see the plastron print?), a snake track with the ventral scutes, nicely landscaped kangaroo rat mounds and a Wright’s buckwheat (Eriogonum wrightii). Oh, and I forgot to tell you that the kangaroo rat I so love…well, they’re all lovable, but the large banner tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is prevalent on the land around our place and they are fantastic! Sooo, we gotta talk more about them. Stay tuned.  ]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:08</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Purshia stansburyana]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Cliffrose has had quite a few botanical names. Remember when the botanical was Cowania mexicana var. stansburiana? Okay, I’m old. The current botanical name is, at least for the time being, Purshia stansburyana. Cliffrose is a beautiful and tough native shrub. And, it is so fragrant that usually you smell it before you see it. “What’s that sweet smell? Oh, look a flowering cliffrose!” The photos are mine and taken on the day described in this episode.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Cliffrose has had quite a few botanical names. Remember when the botanical was Cowania mexicana var. stansburiana? Okay, I’m old. The current botanical name is, at least for the time being, Purshia stansburyana. Cliffrose is a beautiful and tough native shrub. And, it is so fragrant that usually you smell it before you see it. “What’s that sweet smell? Oh, look a flowering cliffrose!” The photos are mine and taken on the day described in this episode.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Purshia stansburyana]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Cliffrose has had quite a few botanical names. Remember when the botanical was Cowania mexicana var. stansburiana? Okay, I’m old. The current botanical name is, at least for the time being, Purshia stansburyana. Cliffrose is a beautiful and tough native shrub. And, it is so fragrant that usually you smell it before you see it. “What’s that sweet smell? Oh, look a flowering cliffrose!” The photos are mine and taken on the day described in this episode.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Cliffrose has had quite a few botanical names. Remember when the botanical was Cowania mexicana var. stansburiana? Okay, I’m old. The current botanical name is, at least for the time being, Purshia stansburyana. Cliffrose is a beautiful and tough native shrub. And, it is so fragrant that usually you smell it before you see it. “What’s that sweet smell? Oh, look a flowering cliffrose!” The photos are mine and taken on the day described in this episode.]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:11</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a festival to celebrate these wonderful fall bloomers. How fortuitous to come across clumps of Gregg’s mistflower (Conoclinum dissectum) on a fall day out in the desert scrub. What a marvelous plant! And by the way, its botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii and that was fun because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a festival to celebrate these wonderful fall bloomers. How fortuitous to come across clumps of Gregg’s mistflower (Conoclinum dissectum) on a fall day out in the desert scrub. What a marvelous plant! And by the way, its botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii and that was fun because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a festival to celebrate these wonderful fall bloomers. How fortuitous to come across clumps of Gregg’s mistflower (Conoclinum dissectum) on a fall day out in the desert scrub. What a marvelous plant! And by the way, its botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii and that was fun because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a festival to celebrate these wonderful fall bloomers. How fortuitous to come across clumps of Gregg’s mistflower (Conoclinum dissectum) on a fall day out in the desert scrub. What a marvelous plant! And by the way, its botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii and that was fun because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Spreading Snake Herb]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Here is the full botanical name of spreading snake herb: Dyschoriste schiedeana var. decumbens. Someone (Asa Gray?) had fun putting the Greek words together to form the genus meaning difficult to separate, referring to “ the valves of the capsules which adhere tightly to each other.” The specific epithet honors the German physician and botanist Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede of the early 1800s (Willy, to his friends) who emigrated to Mexico to study the flora and fauna. The variety name decumbens means…hello.. decumbent! That would be a good name for a recliner! “Nap like a botanist in the Decumbent!” The photos…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here is the full botanical name of spreading snake herb: Dyschoriste schiedeana var. decumbens. Someone (Asa Gray?) had fun putting the Greek words together to form the genus meaning difficult to separate, referring to “ the valves of the capsules which adhere tightly to each other.” The specific epithet honors the German physician and botanist Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede of the early 1800s (Willy, to his friends) who emigrated to Mexico to study the flora and fauna. The variety name decumbens means…hello.. decumbent! That would be a good name for a recliner! “Nap like a botanist in the Decumbent!” The photos…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Spreading Snake Herb]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here is the full botanical name of spreading snake herb: Dyschoriste schiedeana var. decumbens. Someone (Asa Gray?) had fun putting the Greek words together to form the genus meaning difficult to separate, referring to “ the valves of the capsules which adhere tightly to each other.” The specific epithet honors the German physician and botanist Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede of the early 1800s (Willy, to his friends) who emigrated to Mexico to study the flora and fauna. The variety name decumbens means…hello.. decumbent! That would be a good name for a recliner! “Nap like a botanist in the Decumbent!” The photos…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Here is the full botanical name of spreading snake herb: Dyschoriste schiedeana var. decumbens. Someone (Asa Gray?) had fun putting the Greek words together to form the genus meaning difficult to separate, referring to “ the valves of the capsules which adhere tightly to each other.” The specific epithet honors the German physician and botanist Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede of the early 1800s (Willy, to his friends) who emigrated to Mexico to study the flora and fauna. The variety name decumbens means…hello.. decumbent! That would be a good name for a recliner! “Nap like a botanist in the Decumbent!” The photos…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:17</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Mala Mujer in the Mules]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson over 30 years ago. And I’m also pretty sure that I turned that encounter into an episode of Growing Native and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that, right? Well anyway, here is a newer episode of Growing Native from another encounter with mala mujer, but in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona.                     …]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson over 30 years ago. And I’m also pretty sure that I turned that encounter into an episode of Growing Native and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that, right? Well anyway, here is a newer episode of Growing Native from another encounter with mala mujer, but in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona.                     …]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Mala Mujer in the Mules]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson over 30 years ago. And I’m also pretty sure that I turned that encounter into an episode of Growing Native and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that, right? Well anyway, here is a newer episode of Growing Native from another encounter with mala mujer, but in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona.                     …]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson over 30 years ago. And I’m also pretty sure that I turned that encounter into an episode of Growing Native and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that, right? Well anyway, here is a newer episode of Growing Native from another encounter with mala mujer, but in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona.                     …]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:27</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Arizona Buttercup]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2565125</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/arizona-buttercup-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua Mountains. And, they were staying at a military camp called Camp Rucker. I mention this because the old Camp Rucker site is very close to where Ms. Mesquitey and I were hanging out. I was so excited …well, I still am… to identify the same buttercup that John and Sara collected over 140 years ago. And, maybe in the same woodland we were in the day of our buttercup discovery. Lemme see…There were wild buttercups in fields and yards when I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua Mountains. And, they were staying at a military camp called Camp Rucker. I mention this because the old Camp Rucker site is very close to where Ms. Mesquitey and I were hanging out. I was so excited …well, I still am… to identify the same buttercup that John and Sara collected over 140 years ago. And, maybe in the same woodland we were in the day of our buttercup discovery. Lemme see…There were wild buttercups in fields and yards when I…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Arizona Buttercup]]>
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                    <![CDATA[In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua Mountains. And, they were staying at a military camp called Camp Rucker. I mention this because the old Camp Rucker site is very close to where Ms. Mesquitey and I were hanging out. I was so excited …well, I still am… to identify the same buttercup that John and Sara collected over 140 years ago. And, maybe in the same woodland we were in the day of our buttercup discovery. Lemme see…There were wild buttercups in fields and yards when I…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua Mountains. And, they were staying at a military camp called Camp Rucker. I mention this because the old Camp Rucker site is very close to where Ms. Mesquitey and I were hanging out. I was so excited …well, I still am… to identify the same buttercup that John and Sara collected over 140 years ago. And, maybe in the same woodland we were in the day of our buttercup discovery. Lemme see…There were wild buttercups in fields and yards when I…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:04</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Crimson Sage]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2557278</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/crimson-sage-2</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[The first time I saw and identified crimson sage (Salvia henryi) was years ago just outside Paradise in the Chiricahua Mountains. ..”just outside Paradise” is a wonderful line… anyway, Marian and I were checking out a native mulberry when we saw the bright red flowers of crimson sage on the same hillside. Later I learned later that John and Sara Lemmon collected it in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1882. The Lemmons sent their plant collections back east to Asa Gray for identification and naming. It was Gray who named the species henryi after the botanist Augustine Henry who collected and botanized…]]>
                                    </description>
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                    <![CDATA[The first time I saw and identified crimson sage (Salvia henryi) was years ago just outside Paradise in the Chiricahua Mountains. ..”just outside Paradise” is a wonderful line… anyway, Marian and I were checking out a native mulberry when we saw the bright red flowers of crimson sage on the same hillside. Later I learned later that John and Sara Lemmon collected it in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1882. The Lemmons sent their plant collections back east to Asa Gray for identification and naming. It was Gray who named the species henryi after the botanist Augustine Henry who collected and botanized…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Crimson Sage]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The first time I saw and identified crimson sage (Salvia henryi) was years ago just outside Paradise in the Chiricahua Mountains. ..”just outside Paradise” is a wonderful line… anyway, Marian and I were checking out a native mulberry when we saw the bright red flowers of crimson sage on the same hillside. Later I learned later that John and Sara Lemmon collected it in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1882. The Lemmons sent their plant collections back east to Asa Gray for identification and naming. It was Gray who named the species henryi after the botanist Augustine Henry who collected and botanized…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The first time I saw and identified crimson sage (Salvia henryi) was years ago just outside Paradise in the Chiricahua Mountains. ..”just outside Paradise” is a wonderful line… anyway, Marian and I were checking out a native mulberry when we saw the bright red flowers of crimson sage on the same hillside. Later I learned later that John and Sara Lemmon collected it in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1882. The Lemmons sent their plant collections back east to Asa Gray for identification and naming. It was Gray who named the species henryi after the botanist Augustine Henry who collected and botanized…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:19</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Beautiful Rank Senna]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2547214</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/beautiful-rank-senna</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[It’s a little bit of a leap from talking about a plant in the aster family to talking about Senna in the pea family. It’s the way my mind was working at the time I guess. Senna species are found around the world. If you were to purchase the herb senna in a store or online it would probably be derived from Senna acutifolia, native to Sudan, Egypt and cultivated in parts of India. Our native sennas are also medicinal, though the strength may vary from species to species. Writing about slenderpod senna (or slimpod senna, but always Senna hirstua var.…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s a little bit of a leap from talking about a plant in the aster family to talking about Senna in the pea family. It’s the way my mind was working at the time I guess. Senna species are found around the world. If you were to purchase the herb senna in a store or online it would probably be derived from Senna acutifolia, native to Sudan, Egypt and cultivated in parts of India. Our native sennas are also medicinal, though the strength may vary from species to species. Writing about slenderpod senna (or slimpod senna, but always Senna hirstua var.…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Beautiful Rank Senna]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s a little bit of a leap from talking about a plant in the aster family to talking about Senna in the pea family. It’s the way my mind was working at the time I guess. Senna species are found around the world. If you were to purchase the herb senna in a store or online it would probably be derived from Senna acutifolia, native to Sudan, Egypt and cultivated in parts of India. Our native sennas are also medicinal, though the strength may vary from species to species. Writing about slenderpod senna (or slimpod senna, but always Senna hirstua var.…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s a little bit of a leap from talking about a plant in the aster family to talking about Senna in the pea family. It’s the way my mind was working at the time I guess. Senna species are found around the world. If you were to purchase the herb senna in a store or online it would probably be derived from Senna acutifolia, native to Sudan, Egypt and cultivated in parts of India. Our native sennas are also medicinal, though the strength may vary from species to species. Writing about slenderpod senna (or slimpod senna, but always Senna hirstua var.…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:30</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
                </itunes:author>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Asclepias involucrata]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2537254</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/asclepias-involucrata-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[An episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call “books and bones.” Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern US and into Mexico. I’m thinking It would be a fun addition to a wildflower pollinator garden, so ask about it at your favorite native plant nursery. Queen butterflies and their caterpillars certainly thought it was a nice addition to my hoop house. Maybe I should close the ends…nah. The photos are mine.]]>
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                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[An episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call “books and bones.” Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern US and into Mexico. I’m thinking It would be a fun addition to a wildflower pollinator garden, so ask about it at your favorite native plant nursery. Queen butterflies and their caterpillars certainly thought it was a nice addition to my hoop house. Maybe I should close the ends…nah. The photos are mine.]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Asclepias involucrata]]>
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                                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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                    <![CDATA[An episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call “books and bones.” Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern US and into Mexico. I’m thinking It would be a fun addition to a wildflower pollinator garden, so ask about it at your favorite native plant nursery. Queen butterflies and their caterpillars certainly thought it was a nice addition to my hoop house. Maybe I should close the ends…nah. The photos are mine.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[An episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call “books and bones.” Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern US and into Mexico. I’m thinking It would be a fun addition to a wildflower pollinator garden, so ask about it at your favorite native plant nursery. Queen butterflies and their caterpillars certainly thought it was a nice addition to my hoop house. Maybe I should close the ends…nah. The photos are mine.]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:18</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[The King of Klutter]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2529434</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/the-king-of-klutter-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Arizona white oak is Quercus arizonica. I’ve come across some magnificent ones over the last 30 years of living near them. We planted a few in our yard as well, grown from collected acorns. Those oaks have stories too. The photos are mine of some of my clutter and that’s Ms. Mesquitey’s hand on the trunk of the huge white oak talked about in this episode.]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Arizona white oak is Quercus arizonica. I’ve come across some magnificent ones over the last 30 years of living near them. We planted a few in our yard as well, grown from collected acorns. Those oaks have stories too. The photos are mine of some of my clutter and that’s Ms. Mesquitey’s hand on the trunk of the huge white oak talked about in this episode.]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[The King of Klutter]]>
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                                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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                    <![CDATA[Arizona white oak is Quercus arizonica. I’ve come across some magnificent ones over the last 30 years of living near them. We planted a few in our yard as well, grown from collected acorns. Those oaks have stories too. The photos are mine of some of my clutter and that’s Ms. Mesquitey’s hand on the trunk of the huge white oak talked about in this episode.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Arizona white oak is Quercus arizonica. I’ve come across some magnificent ones over the last 30 years of living near them. We planted a few in our yard as well, grown from collected acorns. Those oaks have stories too. The photos are mine of some of my clutter and that’s Ms. Mesquitey’s hand on the trunk of the huge white oak talked about in this episode.]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:23</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Magical Monsoon Moisture]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2519445</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/magical-monsoon-moisture-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[The photo is mine and taken from our place looking west toward the Dragoons. I call the photo, “Come to Poppa.”]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[The photo is mine and taken from our place looking west toward the Dragoons. I call the photo, “Come to Poppa.”]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Magical Monsoon Moisture]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The photo is mine and taken from our place looking west toward the Dragoons. I call the photo, “Come to Poppa.”]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The photo is mine and taken from our place looking west toward the Dragoons. I call the photo, “Come to Poppa.”]]>
                </itunes:summary>
                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:26</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Mexican Hog-Nosed Snake]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2508885</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/mexican-hog-nosed-snake-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[I first learned this snake as the western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus). It’s now called the Mexican hog-nosed snake (H. kennerlyi). And this is neat, well at least for me; a snake of my Kentucky youth was the eastern hog-nosed snake (Heterodon platirhinos). It has all the same crazy wonderful behavior as our borderlands species. Back in those olden days I remember folks called it puff adder or puffing adder, among other colloquial names based on its defensive behavior. Now you know. The photos are mine. Those are Marian’s hands doing what she has been doing for about 48 years…holding snakes…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[I first learned this snake as the western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus). It’s now called the Mexican hog-nosed snake (H. kennerlyi). And this is neat, well at least for me; a snake of my Kentucky youth was the eastern hog-nosed snake (Heterodon platirhinos). It has all the same crazy wonderful behavior as our borderlands species. Back in those olden days I remember folks called it puff adder or puffing adder, among other colloquial names based on its defensive behavior. Now you know. The photos are mine. Those are Marian’s hands doing what she has been doing for about 48 years…holding snakes…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Mexican Hog-Nosed Snake]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I first learned this snake as the western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus). It’s now called the Mexican hog-nosed snake (H. kennerlyi). And this is neat, well at least for me; a snake of my Kentucky youth was the eastern hog-nosed snake (Heterodon platirhinos). It has all the same crazy wonderful behavior as our borderlands species. Back in those olden days I remember folks called it puff adder or puffing adder, among other colloquial names based on its defensive behavior. Now you know. The photos are mine. Those are Marian’s hands doing what she has been doing for about 48 years…holding snakes…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I first learned this snake as the western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus). It’s now called the Mexican hog-nosed snake (H. kennerlyi). And this is neat, well at least for me; a snake of my Kentucky youth was the eastern hog-nosed snake (Heterodon platirhinos). It has all the same crazy wonderful behavior as our borderlands species. Back in those olden days I remember folks called it puff adder or puffing adder, among other colloquial names based on its defensive behavior. Now you know. The photos are mine. Those are Marian’s hands doing what she has been doing for about 48 years…holding snakes…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:15</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
                </itunes:author>
                                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[What's Going On Quest]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2500510</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/whats-going-on-quest</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Spotting Wyoming paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia) with those bright red inflorescences out on that gravelly plain in a thicket of Apache plume was so cool.  Our “what’s going on quest” was a success. Paintbrush is what’s going on! The photos are mine. Do you see the beaks? Pretty cool.      ]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Spotting Wyoming paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia) with those bright red inflorescences out on that gravelly plain in a thicket of Apache plume was so cool.  Our “what’s going on quest” was a success. Paintbrush is what’s going on! The photos are mine. Do you see the beaks? Pretty cool.      ]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[What's Going On Quest]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
                <content:encoded>
                    <![CDATA[Spotting Wyoming paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia) with those bright red inflorescences out on that gravelly plain in a thicket of Apache plume was so cool.  Our “what’s going on quest” was a success. Paintbrush is what’s going on! The photos are mine. Do you see the beaks? Pretty cool.      ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Spotting Wyoming paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia) with those bright red inflorescences out on that gravelly plain in a thicket of Apache plume was so cool.  Our “what’s going on quest” was a success. Paintbrush is what’s going on! The photos are mine. Do you see the beaks? Pretty cool.      ]]>
                </itunes:summary>
                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:37</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Burs in My Flip Flops and I Don't Care.]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/25789/episode/2492749</guid>
                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/burs-in-my-flip-flops-and-i-dont-care</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[The distinctive odor of canyon ragweed (Ambrosia ambrosioides) is so Sonoran Desert. Hey, burs in your flip flops is a very Sonoran Desert thing too and some of those burs could be from kissing cousin Ambrosia deltoidea. Oh, I forgot to mention that canyon ragweed has medicinal uses, so you may want to look up its uses. So Sonoran Desert! And the plant list that I was perusing and enjoying was for the Dunbar Springs Neighborhood in Tucson. The inclusion of canyon ragweed on the list made me want to move to that neighborhood. I like the drawing of canyon…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The distinctive odor of canyon ragweed (Ambrosia ambrosioides) is so Sonoran Desert. Hey, burs in your flip flops is a very Sonoran Desert thing too and some of those burs could be from kissing cousin Ambrosia deltoidea. Oh, I forgot to mention that canyon ragweed has medicinal uses, so you may want to look up its uses. So Sonoran Desert! And the plant list that I was perusing and enjoying was for the Dunbar Springs Neighborhood in Tucson. The inclusion of canyon ragweed on the list made me want to move to that neighborhood. I like the drawing of canyon…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Burs in My Flip Flops and I Don't Care.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The distinctive odor of canyon ragweed (Ambrosia ambrosioides) is so Sonoran Desert. Hey, burs in your flip flops is a very Sonoran Desert thing too and some of those burs could be from kissing cousin Ambrosia deltoidea. Oh, I forgot to mention that canyon ragweed has medicinal uses, so you may want to look up its uses. So Sonoran Desert! And the plant list that I was perusing and enjoying was for the Dunbar Springs Neighborhood in Tucson. The inclusion of canyon ragweed on the list made me want to move to that neighborhood. I like the drawing of canyon…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The distinctive odor of canyon ragweed (Ambrosia ambrosioides) is so Sonoran Desert. Hey, burs in your flip flops is a very Sonoran Desert thing too and some of those burs could be from kissing cousin Ambrosia deltoidea. Oh, I forgot to mention that canyon ragweed has medicinal uses, so you may want to look up its uses. So Sonoran Desert! And the plant list that I was perusing and enjoying was for the Dunbar Springs Neighborhood in Tucson. The inclusion of canyon ragweed on the list made me want to move to that neighborhood. I like the drawing of canyon…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:06</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Amphibians and Reptiles, Oh My!]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[This episode of Growing Native is a rambling reminiscence about amphibians and reptiles. With the monsoon starting up here in the borderlands I think we’re going to be seeing some of those. Yay! The photos are mine. That’s a pile of wonderful field guides. I love the old 1966 Peterson Field by Robert Stebbins. The western duded up Sonoran Desert Toad was the logo of the 1970s Tucson band The Dusty Chaps. And the boy and girl catching tadpoles, well, that’s me and my friend Cricky (Lucretia) back in those wonderful days.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[This episode of Growing Native is a rambling reminiscence about amphibians and reptiles. With the monsoon starting up here in the borderlands I think we’re going to be seeing some of those. Yay! The photos are mine. That’s a pile of wonderful field guides. I love the old 1966 Peterson Field by Robert Stebbins. The western duded up Sonoran Desert Toad was the logo of the 1970s Tucson band The Dusty Chaps. And the boy and girl catching tadpoles, well, that’s me and my friend Cricky (Lucretia) back in those wonderful days.  ]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Amphibians and Reptiles, Oh My!]]>
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                    <![CDATA[This episode of Growing Native is a rambling reminiscence about amphibians and reptiles. With the monsoon starting up here in the borderlands I think we’re going to be seeing some of those. Yay! The photos are mine. That’s a pile of wonderful field guides. I love the old 1966 Peterson Field by Robert Stebbins. The western duded up Sonoran Desert Toad was the logo of the 1970s Tucson band The Dusty Chaps. And the boy and girl catching tadpoles, well, that’s me and my friend Cricky (Lucretia) back in those wonderful days.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[This episode of Growing Native is a rambling reminiscence about amphibians and reptiles. With the monsoon starting up here in the borderlands I think we’re going to be seeing some of those. Yay! The photos are mine. That’s a pile of wonderful field guides. I love the old 1966 Peterson Field by Robert Stebbins. The western duded up Sonoran Desert Toad was the logo of the 1970s Tucson band The Dusty Chaps. And the boy and girl catching tadpoles, well, that’s me and my friend Cricky (Lucretia) back in those wonderful days.  ]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:03</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[A Jaunt to the Woodlands]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[The common name Firecracker Bush is a good one for Bouvardia ternifolia with its clusters of glowing scarlet flowers that look like small floral explosions, but it can also be one of the many common names for the plant Russelia equisetiformis. Yikes! Sooo, how about the combination of the flower color and the botanical to give  us Scarlet Bouvardia. That’s a pretty cool common name! And, I forgot to say that Bouvardia ternifolia is in the Madder family Rubiaceae, but now I have. The photos are mine and taken while on a recent jaunt to the woodlands.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The common name Firecracker Bush is a good one for Bouvardia ternifolia with its clusters of glowing scarlet flowers that look like small floral explosions, but it can also be one of the many common names for the plant Russelia equisetiformis. Yikes! Sooo, how about the combination of the flower color and the botanical to give  us Scarlet Bouvardia. That’s a pretty cool common name! And, I forgot to say that Bouvardia ternifolia is in the Madder family Rubiaceae, but now I have. The photos are mine and taken while on a recent jaunt to the woodlands.]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[A Jaunt to the Woodlands]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The common name Firecracker Bush is a good one for Bouvardia ternifolia with its clusters of glowing scarlet flowers that look like small floral explosions, but it can also be one of the many common names for the plant Russelia equisetiformis. Yikes! Sooo, how about the combination of the flower color and the botanical to give  us Scarlet Bouvardia. That’s a pretty cool common name! And, I forgot to say that Bouvardia ternifolia is in the Madder family Rubiaceae, but now I have. The photos are mine and taken while on a recent jaunt to the woodlands.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The common name Firecracker Bush is a good one for Bouvardia ternifolia with its clusters of glowing scarlet flowers that look like small floral explosions, but it can also be one of the many common names for the plant Russelia equisetiformis. Yikes! Sooo, how about the combination of the flower color and the botanical to give  us Scarlet Bouvardia. That’s a pretty cool common name! And, I forgot to say that Bouvardia ternifolia is in the Madder family Rubiaceae, but now I have. The photos are mine and taken while on a recent jaunt to the woodlands.]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:03:54</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Scruffy Grassland Report]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 17:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[Some spring time banter about the soaptree yuccas (Yucca elata) and pale wolfberry plants (Lycium pallidum) found in the scruffy grassland surrounding our home near the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. The photos are mine.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Some spring time banter about the soaptree yuccas (Yucca elata) and pale wolfberry plants (Lycium pallidum) found in the scruffy grassland surrounding our home near the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. The photos are mine.  ]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Scruffy Grassland Report]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Some spring time banter about the soaptree yuccas (Yucca elata) and pale wolfberry plants (Lycium pallidum) found in the scruffy grassland surrounding our home near the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. The photos are mine.  ]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Some spring time banter about the soaptree yuccas (Yucca elata) and pale wolfberry plants (Lycium pallidum) found in the scruffy grassland surrounding our home near the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. The photos are mine.  ]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:25</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Urban Renewal, Wild Escape and Shindaggers]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[The little urban park in Tucson where part of this episode takes place has always been nice renewal before hitting the road for the two hour trip home. The rocky hillside described is in the Dragoon Mountains and is pretty good for renewal as well. Shindaggers (Agave schottii) have yellow flowers on a four to five foot tall stalk. It’s quite striking. Oh, and I said that shindaggers sucker and that’s an understatement. Every fall for years I hunted and hiked the mesas at the base of the Galiuro Escarpment. Sometimes that involved navigating through stands of thousands of Agave…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The little urban park in Tucson where part of this episode takes place has always been nice renewal before hitting the road for the two hour trip home. The rocky hillside described is in the Dragoon Mountains and is pretty good for renewal as well. Shindaggers (Agave schottii) have yellow flowers on a four to five foot tall stalk. It’s quite striking. Oh, and I said that shindaggers sucker and that’s an understatement. Every fall for years I hunted and hiked the mesas at the base of the Galiuro Escarpment. Sometimes that involved navigating through stands of thousands of Agave…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Urban Renewal, Wild Escape and Shindaggers]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The little urban park in Tucson where part of this episode takes place has always been nice renewal before hitting the road for the two hour trip home. The rocky hillside described is in the Dragoon Mountains and is pretty good for renewal as well. Shindaggers (Agave schottii) have yellow flowers on a four to five foot tall stalk. It’s quite striking. Oh, and I said that shindaggers sucker and that’s an understatement. Every fall for years I hunted and hiked the mesas at the base of the Galiuro Escarpment. Sometimes that involved navigating through stands of thousands of Agave…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The little urban park in Tucson where part of this episode takes place has always been nice renewal before hitting the road for the two hour trip home. The rocky hillside described is in the Dragoon Mountains and is pretty good for renewal as well. Shindaggers (Agave schottii) have yellow flowers on a four to five foot tall stalk. It’s quite striking. Oh, and I said that shindaggers sucker and that’s an understatement. Every fall for years I hunted and hiked the mesas at the base of the Galiuro Escarpment. Sometimes that involved navigating through stands of thousands of Agave…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:21</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Penstemon Stuff!]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[It’s funny how irritable those relic Parry penstemons from an old roadside hydro seed make me. For goodness sake, why weren’t more regional seeds used in that revegetation job? Short diatribe over. Penstemon species are fun to grow in your personal habitat and seed or plants are readily available. One way or the other you’ll get penstemon volunteers as well. Yay! If you are a beardtongue geek, I recommend Robert Nord’s book called Penstemons. I still pull it off the shelf so I guess that makes me a geek. The photos are mine of Penstemon fendleri, P. superbus and P.…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s funny how irritable those relic Parry penstemons from an old roadside hydro seed make me. For goodness sake, why weren’t more regional seeds used in that revegetation job? Short diatribe over. Penstemon species are fun to grow in your personal habitat and seed or plants are readily available. One way or the other you’ll get penstemon volunteers as well. Yay! If you are a beardtongue geek, I recommend Robert Nord’s book called Penstemons. I still pull it off the shelf so I guess that makes me a geek. The photos are mine of Penstemon fendleri, P. superbus and P.…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Penstemon Stuff!]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s funny how irritable those relic Parry penstemons from an old roadside hydro seed make me. For goodness sake, why weren’t more regional seeds used in that revegetation job? Short diatribe over. Penstemon species are fun to grow in your personal habitat and seed or plants are readily available. One way or the other you’ll get penstemon volunteers as well. Yay! If you are a beardtongue geek, I recommend Robert Nord’s book called Penstemons. I still pull it off the shelf so I guess that makes me a geek. The photos are mine of Penstemon fendleri, P. superbus and P.…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[It’s funny how irritable those relic Parry penstemons from an old roadside hydro seed make me. For goodness sake, why weren’t more regional seeds used in that revegetation job? Short diatribe over. Penstemon species are fun to grow in your personal habitat and seed or plants are readily available. One way or the other you’ll get penstemon volunteers as well. Yay! If you are a beardtongue geek, I recommend Robert Nord’s book called Penstemons. I still pull it off the shelf so I guess that makes me a geek. The photos are mine of Penstemon fendleri, P. superbus and P.…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:36</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Drive-By Bebbia in the Borderlands]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                    <link>https://growing-native.castos.com/episodes/drive-by-bebbia-in-the-borderlands</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Fans of borderlands’ flora will tell you there is nothing better than spotting an interesting plant out the window of your truck as you rumble by and shouting, “What was that? Wait, stop, pull over!” A drive-by turns into a stop and go. The sweetbush (Bebbia juncea) that Marian and I saw on the day described in this episode was in rocky desert with lots of mesquite, acacia, tar bush and sumac. Sweetbush seems to like the “rocky” part of rocky desert. The photos are mine of blooming Bebbia juncea in a desert fence line. The American Lady butterflies (Vanessa…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Fans of borderlands’ flora will tell you there is nothing better than spotting an interesting plant out the window of your truck as you rumble by and shouting, “What was that? Wait, stop, pull over!” A drive-by turns into a stop and go. The sweetbush (Bebbia juncea) that Marian and I saw on the day described in this episode was in rocky desert with lots of mesquite, acacia, tar bush and sumac. Sweetbush seems to like the “rocky” part of rocky desert. The photos are mine of blooming Bebbia juncea in a desert fence line. The American Lady butterflies (Vanessa…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Drive-By Bebbia in the Borderlands]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Fans of borderlands’ flora will tell you there is nothing better than spotting an interesting plant out the window of your truck as you rumble by and shouting, “What was that? Wait, stop, pull over!” A drive-by turns into a stop and go. The sweetbush (Bebbia juncea) that Marian and I saw on the day described in this episode was in rocky desert with lots of mesquite, acacia, tar bush and sumac. Sweetbush seems to like the “rocky” part of rocky desert. The photos are mine of blooming Bebbia juncea in a desert fence line. The American Lady butterflies (Vanessa…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Fans of borderlands’ flora will tell you there is nothing better than spotting an interesting plant out the window of your truck as you rumble by and shouting, “What was that? Wait, stop, pull over!” A drive-by turns into a stop and go. The sweetbush (Bebbia juncea) that Marian and I saw on the day described in this episode was in rocky desert with lots of mesquite, acacia, tar bush and sumac. Sweetbush seems to like the “rocky” part of rocky desert. The photos are mine of blooming Bebbia juncea in a desert fence line. The American Lady butterflies (Vanessa…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:27</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Ubiquiticola]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[I love following drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well. Do I always tell you that? Having wild turkeys come out of the nearby mountains and wander by our little homestead reminded me about the magic of canyons and arroyos that cross our deserts. The reintroduction of the Gould’s turkey into the mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona began in the early 1980s and continued through the 1990s. There were failures and successes, but now a days you can’t go into the woodlands or forest of the borderlands…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I love following drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well. Do I always tell you that? Having wild turkeys come out of the nearby mountains and wander by our little homestead reminded me about the magic of canyons and arroyos that cross our deserts. The reintroduction of the Gould’s turkey into the mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona began in the early 1980s and continued through the 1990s. There were failures and successes, but now a days you can’t go into the woodlands or forest of the borderlands…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Ubiquiticola]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I love following drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well. Do I always tell you that? Having wild turkeys come out of the nearby mountains and wander by our little homestead reminded me about the magic of canyons and arroyos that cross our deserts. The reintroduction of the Gould’s turkey into the mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona began in the early 1980s and continued through the 1990s. There were failures and successes, but now a days you can’t go into the woodlands or forest of the borderlands…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I love following drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well. Do I always tell you that? Having wild turkeys come out of the nearby mountains and wander by our little homestead reminded me about the magic of canyons and arroyos that cross our deserts. The reintroduction of the Gould’s turkey into the mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona began in the early 1980s and continued through the 1990s. There were failures and successes, but now a days you can’t go into the woodlands or forest of the borderlands…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:04:03</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Phlox in the Same Old Woodland.]]>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Petey Mesquitey</dc:creator>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[I like to say the name Phlox. I think it’s the letters p, h and l that make it fun, and yes, it’s probably just me. The name is from the Greek for flame and the specific epithet nana for the plant in this episode is also from the Greek and means dwarf. With that in mind, I suggest a common name for Phlox nana could be Little Phlame Phlox. Yay, and you’re welcome! Oh, and those are my notes rustling in this episode. I was a little disorganized. Okay, maybe a lot. And, the photos are mine, taken in…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I like to say the name Phlox. I think it’s the letters p, h and l that make it fun, and yes, it’s probably just me. The name is from the Greek for flame and the specific epithet nana for the plant in this episode is also from the Greek and means dwarf. With that in mind, I suggest a common name for Phlox nana could be Little Phlame Phlox. Yay, and you’re welcome! Oh, and those are my notes rustling in this episode. I was a little disorganized. Okay, maybe a lot. And, the photos are mine, taken in…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Phlox in the Same Old Woodland.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I like to say the name Phlox. I think it’s the letters p, h and l that make it fun, and yes, it’s probably just me. The name is from the Greek for flame and the specific epithet nana for the plant in this episode is also from the Greek and means dwarf. With that in mind, I suggest a common name for Phlox nana could be Little Phlame Phlox. Yay, and you’re welcome! Oh, and those are my notes rustling in this episode. I was a little disorganized. Okay, maybe a lot. And, the photos are mine, taken in…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[I like to say the name Phlox. I think it’s the letters p, h and l that make it fun, and yes, it’s probably just me. The name is from the Greek for flame and the specific epithet nana for the plant in this episode is also from the Greek and means dwarf. With that in mind, I suggest a common name for Phlox nana could be Little Phlame Phlox. Yay, and you’re welcome! Oh, and those are my notes rustling in this episode. I was a little disorganized. Okay, maybe a lot. And, the photos are mine, taken in…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Petey Mesquitey]]>
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