Bouncing Bet - Soapwort

Returning to the current local wildflower scene, here's a new gal on the block........"Bouncing Bet"..........cute name, eh?

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There seems to be more varieties of wildflowers appearing this year than usual; Husband thinks its due to the overabundance of rain we've been blessed with this spring and summer.

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If you're so inclined, go to the Prime Focus - Iowa website to learn Bouncing Bet's scientific name. That's a very lovely and informative website, but rarely comes up on a Google search.......for me, anyhow.

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Bouncing Bet is also known as Soapwort.........that name being explained on this Connecticut Botanical Society website, and on good old dependable Wikipedia.

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A few minutes ago I started to walk out to the road to take another look at Bouncing Bet, and maybe crush a bloom to see if really does result in a soapy froth. But........a dark shadow passed across the path ahead.......yikes.......it was one of those creepy turkey vultures, flying low! Oh, I don't care for them.......I don't think they would pounce on a living, moving person, but it gave me the willies and I headed back here to the house........screaming and waving my arms (not really).

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Hope you're having a great day.......and weren't turned off by the cow's tongue-in-nostril trick on the previous post. The Holstein gals are quite proud of their ability to do that, and they'd been badgering me to show you!!