“If you look at the field beside the road and you see merely the generic ‘meadow,’ you’re less likely to care if it’s bulldozed for a strip mall than you are if you know that those tall, flat-leaved spires are milkweed, upon which the monarchs have flown two thousand miles to feed, or if you can name sailer's breaches and purslane, lamb’s-quarter, or the big umbrels of wild carrot feeding the small multitudes. Isn't the world larger and more valuable, if you know what an umbel is?” –Mark Doty Do you know what an umbel is? A cluster of blooms, sprouting from a common center. A collection of...
