Wednesday, May 26, 2021

A year of flowers #34: Montana golden pea

 

Thermopsis montana

This one is like the previous Mule's ears post, in that... I don't have a plant that's mature enough to flower, so I went down the road and took this photo.  This is another seed that needs the 180º scarification treatment (heat up H2O to 180º, take off the heat, thrown in the seeds and let cool down overnight--plant the next day), but I hadn't tried that until a couple of years ago, so I have one plant that might flower next year, and a bunch of little, tiny three-leave sprouts.  But that's the right method for this lupine relative. Here is my biggest plant--



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