I found a fully deployed version of the mystery weed

old
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin5/w33.jpg (26th) Weed unknown 33
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin5/w33a.jpg (27th) Weed unknown 33a
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin5/w33b.jpg (27th) Weed unknown 33b

spiral red streaks in stem at base
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin5/w33c.jpg (28th) Weed unknown 33c

in flower, inverted petals like coneflower
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin5/w33d.jpg (29th) Weed unknown 33d

some ten miles away. It seems to be a rare weed. There's a
half dozen I've been watching in one spot (roadside ditch)
but no others around, except this one today ten miles away,
also in a roadside ditch.

The coneflower shape is strange.
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Ron Hardin


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