Sawtooth sunflowers are starting to bloom.. though they have a very long flowering range, quite a few are open. I don't think they've hit peak yet and I expect to see them at least until October. What sets these apart from other DYCs* is their odor. Since I was just a young nature nerd, I've been told by naturalists that they smell like chocolate. Now, there are a few possibilities here. Maybe I, or they, have bad senses of smell. Maybe they were just repeating what they'd been told, as I am admittedly doing here. Maybe these fine folks spent so much time being nature nerds that they didn't cook. I don't know. But I definitely don't smell chocolate. The plants do have a distinct odor, not quite sure how to describe it... (actually, that's the fourth and likely correct option -- we just don't have very good vocabularies of smell. If it's not "like something else" we can't capture it...) At any rate. Sawtooth sunflowers!
*that's, um... "darn yellow composites"
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