Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is also known scientifically as the frequency illusion. You buy a car and suddenly you see the same model everywhere. Or perhaps get a new plant from the nursery, and now everyone else seems to have them as well. So now we are seeing “what ever” everywhere right. Well, sometimes it happens with plants that I find in the wild. And other days, not so much, to my disappointment. Here is an article, “The Frequency Illusion: Why You’ll Probably Hear the Name Baader-Meinhof Again Soon” that you might find interesting.
As I have mentioned before, I want to find the Pilostyles thurberi on the grasslands. I was hoping that I would start to see it everywhere. Alas, this has not been the case. After finishing an early morning quail survey, we go to places where Black Dalea could be growing. This is the host plant for Pilostyles and the one pictured here.
While we have yet to locate Pilostyles on the grasslands, there is much else to enjoy. For instance, this Scurf-pea Linearifolia (Pediomelum linearifolium)!
Drummond’s Skullcap on the prairie! It is definitely about finished. Yet somehow the plants have managed to stay green.
Some even still have blooms like this example!
Next, stopping at the White Compass Plant (Silphium albiflorum), we watched.
I do wonder how that bee flies. But maybe pollen doesn’t weigh much.
Maybe that is it.:-)
White rosinweed is a star in this post! Love!
Haha, I hope you find more!
Naegleria article interesting…
Very cool water conservation!! We need it in this world.
Surely I will find some on the grasslands some day. 😊