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Hairy bittercress is an early spring flower known for their large siliques, or seed pods, that stand tall next to the flower. When mature, the pods burst open, scattering seeds everywhere. This makes them aggressively invasive AND great candidates for eating! The plant is a delicious leafy green, and the flowers have a slightly spicy flavor (they are in the mustard family). Eat them before the seed pods open to mitigate their spread!

Morphology is the study of WHY an organism looks the way it does (how does form meet function). The fact that this flower is open, is saturated with pigment, and has obvious reproductive structures, tells me that it relies on a diurnal animal (probably a type of bee or butterfly) to pollinate it!

Orchids are often epiphytic, meaning that they like to utilize other plants as growing substrates (like growing off of trees). This makes them perfect candidates for mounting and having floating in your home!

While this particular individual Western Sheep moth is rather vibrant, not all of them are. This is a subspecies, found only in northern California and southern Oregon. Subspecies often can breed within its species, however it has genetic traits unique to individuals found within a different geographical range or requires different ecosystems. Other sheep moths lack the pink and orange coloration and are only yellow and black! Of course, I wanted to illustrate the more colorful subspecies.

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