But I thought the title "Master Gardener" meant you knew everything about everything! *grin* I stopped at Barnes & Noble on the way home and got some more identification guides because it's so much easier to thumb through a real book than to hunt on the internets! You were spot on with the mint family thing. It is Stachys palustris. Although I can't tell the species I have decided that the bee is definitely Bombus spp. because it doesn't look anything like the Carpenter bees in the Audubon book. Now I just have to try to figure out for sure what kind of "looks like a dandelion" plant that is...
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Date: 2005-08-23 02:19 am (UTC)I stopped at Barnes & Noble on the way home and got some more identification guides because it's so much easier to thumb through a real book than to hunt on the internets! You were spot on with the mint family thing. It is Stachys palustris.
Although I can't tell the species I have decided that the bee is definitely Bombus spp. because it doesn't look anything like the Carpenter bees in the Audubon book.
Now I just have to try to figure out for sure what kind of "looks like a dandelion" plant that is...