Play · Grades 6–12 · Adults · about 5 min
📜 Origin Stories
Every species on this site has a story: how it got here, what people used it for, the odd fact nobody expects. The name is blanked out. Ten questions, four choices.
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Which native plant is this? Named, by one story, for the Susan in an 18th-century ballad who searched the docks for her sailor, Sweet William, another flower. It is Maryland's state flower and the flower woven into the Preakness blanket, though those are usually chrysanthemums painted to match because the real thing blooms too late.
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