The Dandelion
Everything the journal has gathered on the dandelion — Taraxacum, the overlooked lawn weed that turns out to be one of the first flowers a queen bumble bee can feed on in spring. Three field notes so far, from the closed bud to the seedhead.
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Wildflowers
The Dandelion Clock — Before It Opens
Everyone knows the dandelion clock. But have you ever caught it before it opens — ribbed, backlit, glowing amber in the last of the light? The quiet drama of a weed most people walk past.
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Wildflowers
The Dandelion Clock — The Open Globe
A hundred seeds on a hundred parachutes, held in perfect tension beside a piece of litter that will outlast them by five centuries. Two clocks in one frame.
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Wildflowers
The dandelion: an unfinished evolution
Why dandelions still flower when they no longer need to. The story of an unfinished evolution, the queen bumble bee, and the plant that keeps everything alive.
