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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

A type of mallow?  The natives around Humboldt County are soft fuzzy things 
but varigated.  Lovely lavendar flowers.  The mallows come in all sizes and 
shapes and colors of both flower and leaf.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> If you are talking about what I call Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa,
> then no, it's not that.
> My digital camera is broken or I would take a picture of it.
> The leaves of this plant look just like lambs ears (Stachys byzantina)
> light gray, fuzzy, soft.  The plant has a basal rosette like mullein,
> and 2 foot tall thick, wooly stalk with multiple buds on the sides, and
> the flowers are 1 inch in diameter and so hot pink that from a distance
> they look red.  It is not orangey at all.