Not really a flower

Saturday, December 14, 2019

There is a time in early winter or late autumn when something unusual happens in the Missouri outdoors. Cooler nights cause most weedy plants to slow the movement of sap upward and they die. But some perennial plants maintain a living root system and sap in the lower stem lies waiting for the first frosty night.

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