Night Flowering Catchfly
Not sure why they call it “catchfly” when it is pollinated by night flying moths, but there you have it. Found on Cow Creek trail.
Gotcha!
I have no idea if the Night-flowering Catchfly actually catches flies. My books say it attracts moths, but apparently the guy who discovered it didn’t like “Night-flowering Catchmoth”. I do know that they close up by late morning and open again in the evening. It took me three hikes to get these pics — the first time I forgot the…
