These seeds are also from a plant that grows in Colorado.
The seeds are carried in a small flat circular structure that looks to me like a tiny window.
Have you ever seen seeds like this? Do you have any idea what the plant might be?
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Our mystery seeds last week were from the rose hip or fruit of a wild rose, Rosa sp.
You may have seen the plant growing in an old field.
Often they are covered with simple flowers in various shades of pink.
The flowers have yellow centers.
There are actually at least three different species in the northern parts of United States and Canada.
Plus some that are being cultivated,
They all make rose hips full of seeds.
Here’s an old rose hip that has dried on the plant.
The fruit of Rosa species are edible, but take care to remove all the hairs and seeds. According to some sources, those hairs were once used as an ingredient in itching powder.
You can also grow new rose plants from the seeds.
Do wild roses grow where you live? Have you ever eaten rose hips?
Did anyone have any ideas what the little bee was doing in the photos from two weeks ago?
Bees sometimes gather a number of different materials from leaves, including water, resin or sap. Because the plant is infested with lace bugs, which produce honeydew like aphids, I suspect this bee was licking honeydew from the brittlebush leaf. It is likely an example of an insect often considered to be a pest supplying the needs of an insect considered to be beneficial. Isn’t nature wonderfully complex?
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