Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets.

Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

Elise Falls @ Smith Creek Preserve | Newton County, Arkansas

Once again, Paul Simon's American Tune is playing on a loop in my head.

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UARK is bustling today! Volunteers @dgwalt.bsky.social @auxarcwildflowers.bsky.social @staymoreark.bsky.social and grad student @arisaemaguy.bsky.social mounted plants and worked on insect mgmt, while local artist (and recent UA grad) Riley Moore came in to draw grasses.

Winter Botany Hike @Smith Creek Preserve, February 22, 10 am to 1 pm. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas Herbarium & Arkansas Native Plant Society.

Winter Schminter, we're going botanizing! Join @jenoglesplants.bsky.social & @andrewruegsegger.bsky.social for a hike at @nature.org 's Smith Creek Preserve.

Cold weather won't stop us, but rain, snow, or ice will so find news and cancellation info at biology.uark.edu/herbarium/events.php.