Natural Selections: Houndstongue is a noxious, poisonous weed with nasty seeds and pretty flowers

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Natural Selections: Houndstongue is a noxious, poisonous weed with nasty seeds and pretty flowers

After spending several hours stalking and photographing butterflies on Flagstaff Mountain, I returned home and spent about 10 minutes removing burs from my jeans and wool socks. I was annoyed, for if I only knew what plant bore those burs, I could give them a wide berth. A year later, when processing my photo of a western tailed-blue (Cupido amyntula) on a cluster of flowers, I found the answer in the photograph. In the foreground were the flowe…