NOTICE of RELEASE of MISSOURI COVEY FALSE INDIGO BUSH Plant Materials Nrcs Usda Form

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we're at the top of alder canyon or near the top of alder canyon just before the stairs that go up to the turtle pond and this is a drainage way and we have one of the plants here that appreciates that extra moisture this is a morpha fruiticosa also known as western false indigo it's a very delicate looking plant and while it can be drought tolerant it definitely does better with some moisture in its native habitats you'll usually find it in canyon bottoms and near creeks and streams it it does prefer to have some moisture uh year-round that it will look its best that way this is a winter deciduous plant this one in particular did not really start leafing out until uh until sometime in april well into spring and but as you can see once at least out it gets these just a multitude of these spikes of uh purple flowers the the uh the flower spikes have uh probably at least a couple dozen a few dozen uh purple flowers each flower is just a single purple petal wrapped around a number of uh o