hiding in plain sight

once i learned that there were 18 species of goldenrod in minnesota, i have become curious about what else i don’t know. so i went searching…following my hunches, and sure enough, as i suspected, i learned there are 14 kinds of milkweed native to minnesota. now i am wondering about cattails. i mean, cattail are cattails, right? or maybe not…

swamp milkweed seedpods (Asclepias incarnata)