Phryma leptostachya 2, Lopseed, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
A sneaky little woodland plant. Unusual in that it blooms in the summer in the woods, its flowers are small and there must be some complex relationship with the sun for this species to eke out a living in the shade, exploiting gaps, disturbance, treefall and that sort of thing, It has flowers, but they are quite modest. Bees visit, but the literature makes it seem that this is infrequent and that there is self-pollination going on too. More study. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr