Sage, pinon, juniper galore
Learning these plants is never a bore
Heterotheca makes me smile and sneeze,
Yellow aster growing along roads with ease
Sphaeralcea, the most beautiful orange flower
Got the bees pollinating, growin’ in power
Sporobolous, Elymus, Bothriochloa, me o’ my
Graminoids with an abundance like pie
Can’t forget the good ol’ Bouteloua
Gracilis, curtipendula, and eriopoda,
Their seeds ripen and ready only in the fall
The phenology of these plants is such a ball
Seasons change, monsoons come and go
I love being able to see the shift so slow
Fallugia, the puffy seed heads so fun to collect
It is meditative focusing my energy on this subject
Of conservation, restoration, harvesting plant power
To make this world more green, native, and wild by the hour!
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Using petal-powered fun to collect Heterotheca villosa