June is Tripterocalyx month

I have found a lot of Tripterocalyx in bloom. In NM. In AZ. And now in Utah. It's a pretty cool plant.
It has really cool seed heads.



And I hope you are seeing this, but that is a bee-mimic fly working those flowers. I caught that sweet little photo at the Angel's Peak location. Tonight, I found a hawkmoth working the group I found in Utah. Leave it to the Utah working group to employ a highly skilled, massively efficient organism for pollination, while in the Navajo Nation....well, I'll say no more.