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A close-up of a single, yellow, roundleaf monkey-flower amongst a host of green leaves.
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Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers

The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.

Yellow wood-sorrels grow from a clover-like, bushy base and have yellow, five-pedaled flowers about the size of a fingernail.
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Wood-Sorrels

On a hot summer day, I often pop a wood-sorrel’s clover-like leaf into my mouth to experience a burst of citrusy tartness. The practice is a long tradition, as for millennia Native Americans have enjoyed them.