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Phenology with John Latimer on June 15th, 2021

KAXE | By Heidi Holtan

Published June 15, 2021 at 10:31 AM CDT

This week John talked about the blooming flowers and the abundance of butterflies and dragonflies. Send us your comments and phenology notes or join us on Facebook in the Season Watch Page. Here's some tweets from the program today:

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GR, MN #phenology curly dock blooming swamps: wild iris, blueflag, fields: hop clover (bright yellow heads) water: sweet water lily is blooming lots of dragonflies - chalk- fronted corporal still out #kaxemorning

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Gr Rapids, MN #phenology Canada columbine, hoary alyssum, common fleabane, oxide daisy blooming Fleabane is a daisy has 50-100 spikes of rays that circle the flower. Common fleabane's leaves clasp the hairy stem #kaxemorning

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Heidi Holtan

For more than two decades, Heidi Holtan has helped shape the sound of KAXE. Since joining the station in 2002 as a volunteer music programmer, she has worn many hats including the weekly book program, Realgoodwords, hosting the Morning Show, creation and host of the weekly call-in program Between You and Me, serving as Outreach Producer. Program Director, News Director and currently Director of Content and Public Affairs.

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