Does it make me some sort of botany geek if I admit to getting a little over-excited by the sight of the first Okanagan ...

It is these ray florets that give the plant its devilish name. In a sunflower, a ray floret is what most people would call the petal, while the disc florets are what emerge from the middle portion.

There’s a new sunflower in town. But it isn’t your stereotypical sunflower with cheery yellow petals. The so-called “woolly devil” is tiny, pale and well camouflaged amid limestone-rich ...