Species #5: Purple Sweet-cicely
Purple Sweet-cicely
Osmorhiza purpurea
An early spring flower with very tiny pink-purple flowers. I mainly notice it in groves of Red Alder where it can be very abundant.
Questions:
This is another species with very small flowers that I have never seen being visited by pollinating insects. Of course my lack of observational persistence and/or skill in no way proves that pollinating insects do not visit these flowers, it does make me wonder. What is the primary means of pollination for these plants?
