National Park Mystery Plant 19: Perhaps It's a Cold?

By Bob Janiskee - April 20th, 2011

These two sentences contain all the clues you should need to identify this month's national park mystery plant.

You're drooping like a wilted flower, and I'm fast growing tired of your sneezing. For crying out loud, just take two aspirins, drink lots of water, and go to bed.

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Submitted by admin on April 20, 2011 - 10:38am.

Hooray!

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 20, 2011 - 1:16pm.

Add tomp2 to the list of readers who've derived the correct answer. BTW, tomp2: (1) Yes, I meant it about the aspirins; it was a highly useful clue, and (2) You didn't need to put quite that fine a point on it, but the cultivar you named is the most common of the various hybrids.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 20, 2011 - 5:01pm.

RangerLady got it right too.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 20, 2011 - 7:16pm.

Nice to see that suki has figured it out too. Well done.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 21, 2011 - 5:19am.

Yes, Mark1859; that's right.

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