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Bev, I helped you last year identify the Bear's Foot plant 
(would love some seeds from it).

I am always happy to try to identify plants for anyone, 
however I no longer have 10,000 volumes of national 
botanical reference books at my fingertips. My specialty 
is wildflowers and native plants of the southwest.

In another life I used to work for the Lady Bird Johnson 
Wildflower Center (formerly the National Wildflower 
Research Center and now a part of the Univeristy of Texas) 
as a native plant information specialist--the botanist 
building and maintaining their native plant databases and 
identifiying flowers from national inquiries. That 
database can be accessed at 
http://www.wildflower.org/explore/

There is a fabulous online database called PLANTS 
maintained by the USDA at http://plants.usda.gov/ that I 
highly recommend for information.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas