This is definitely one of my favorite native plants around here. There were a few of them on the edges when I first moved here, then they would mysteriously vanish one year, coming back in a year or two. There were a few that got going in the middle of the property, and after a few years they were gone. I am not entirely sure how this works. This year there are not many out there, but in this spot last year there must have been thirty of them. I have a suspicion that they appear as little seedlings and then disappear for a year or so, building roots, then they come up and die back for several years. So when you see a slope with hundreds of these, you are actually looking at thousands of them, but you can't see many of them. I keep collecting seed and working them in, and at least in a few spots they've got a fairly permanent status, as here, but they make me nervous when I only see a few of them like this.
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