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Natural Selections: Salt and pepper adds spice to spring

By: Jeff Mitton
Date: April 14, 2020
ColoradoColorado PlateauRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryGothicLomatium dissectumThomomys talpoides

Summary

In March and April of each year I get anxious for the arrival of spring. I watch the days get longer and visit a variety of sites in Colorado and on the Colorado Plateau to see what is up and blooming and who is pollinating. For two years in a row I have noticed white and red umbels of a small plant