Day 263: This exquisite plant wasn't in a position where I could do a Penny Perspective, so get out your metric ruler and measure off two millimeters. Not centimeters...millimeters. That's a generous estimate of how big the largest flower was from petal tip to tip. The detail wasn't visible in the photos I took on June 25, so I went back with an additional macro filter, stacking them for a total of 5x magnification on top of the camera's 2.1x macro zoom. My botany partner Joe had seen them a week earlier and had identified them as Pacific Mitrewort, but taxonomy being what it is currently, his Latin was out of date. The proper binomial for this little beauty is Ozomelis trifida, "trifida" referring to the separation of the petal tips into three fingers. The plant is also called "Three-toothed Mitrewort."
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