March 21, 2006
poor little flower
There's a woman out there, a human flower. Her name's Julie. She's very smart and very clever and very a lot of wonderful things I don't know nearly enough of. You can read about her and her clever brains here.
I thought of her today as I was doing my copy edit work for my schmancy scientific journal.
I came across this plant. Lomatium triternatum (Pursh) Coult. & Rose.
It's a nineleaf biscuitroot. That's a funny root.
But Julie the human flower, she lives in Austin, Texas. Do they eat biscuits in Austin? For some reason I always picture her in Atlanta, although I've never pictured her eating a biscuit.
At any rate, she lives in the south. They have biscuits there. It's a plant. She likes plants. It's kind of a wacky name. She's kind of a wacky girl. And it grows in Texas, in some parts. Although not in Austin, I don't think. But it's a biscuitroot. And there's a peppered biscuitroot. Which would be for her being spicy and sassy.
So, biscuitroot, you're now a symbol of happy.
This picture belongs to the very copyright aware people at montana.plant-life.org/species/lomat_cou.htm who should know that this is an exercise in academic frivolity, which has, in fact, solidified my understanding of academics and their absolute frivolity.
Posted by dotty at March 21, 2006 11:36 PM | TrackBack