fiddleneck


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Related to fiddleneck: Amsinckia intermedia, Amsinckia
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Synonyms for fiddleneck

hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers

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About 30 pumpers and 79 firefighters were stationed on Fiddleneck Road when the flames arrived.
Conversely, fiddleneck (Amsinckia tessellata), Astragalus spp., grama grass (Bouteloua barbata), Dicoria, and Erioneuron revealed no infestation at all (Table 2).
Among the crowds of spring wildflowers this route presents are zigadene, saxifrage, woodland star, paintbrush, sanicle, shooting star, fiddleneck, owl's clover, yarrow, delphiniums, ranunculus, Chinese houses, salvias, poppies, lupines, wild peas, blue-eyed grass, and wild cucumber vine.
The poppy's supporting actors include purple lupine, yellow goldfields, and fiddleneck. End at the new picnic area.
The next spring, many of the same families came out again to plant more perennials, adding perennial blue flax, mountain bluet, butter-and-eggs (it's becoming a problem), prairie coneflower, as well as self-sowing wildflowers, including California poppy, bird's-eyes, and fiddleneck. They filled in bare spots this time with blue salvia, Chinese forget-me-not, and signet marigolds.
Look for wild geranium, owl's clover, and fiddleneck.
Another hurls thorny fiddlenecks' anchor Of heaping manifests.
But she could also catch on to the heart of things in a way that made them clearer for him, especially on late spring days like that one, when the grass was green and buzzing with life, the yellow fiddlenecks grown up and bent over across every hill, and the breeze sweet.
Golden corydalis, desert phlox, desert chicory, spiderwort, popcorn flower, thistle poppy, fiddlenecks, deer vetch, desert anemone, scorpion flower, strawberry hedgehog cactus and pincushion cactus are in bloom.