Again heard crows harassing a Red-Tailed Hawk this morning. Brought a plant from the house which Wren ID'd as Polymnia canadensis or perhaps uvedalia. Leafcup. Both are listed Newcomb's, only the large flowered uvedalia in Wharton, also called Bearfoot.
Referred to 'Who Named the Daisy? Who Named the Rose?: A Roving Dictionary of North American Wildflowers' by Mary Durant. She says 'orchid' is from the Greek for testicles from the shape of the root. It's said that men who eat it beget only boys.
Another good book is 'Secrets of Wildflowers' by Jack Sanders. it notes that there are no blue orchids and tells of a German who paid to have a species eradicated in the wild after he'd collected it in order to raise its value!
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