The Worlds Tiniest Sunflower

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

"One from the vaults. Originally recorded in April of 2020, this video examines a very rare and tiny little annual bastard of the Sunflower family known as the Barstow Wooly Sunflower - #Eriophyllum mohavense, known only from the Western Mojave Desert around the city of Barstow, California. Why does it have such a restricted distribution? When did it first emerge as a species? How long can the tiny seeds lay in the gravelly soil waiting for the right conditions to germinate? And why is it so damn small?"