Missouri State Flower: Hawthorn

Nature, State Flowers 1 Minute

The state flower of Missouri is the attractive bloom of the flowering Hawthorn. The small tree grows well in Missouri’s climate, lining streets and yards across the state. Hundreds of species of Hawthorn exist. State lawmakers did not single out a specific Hawthorn when naming it as the Missouri state flower, providing residents with no guidance about which plant’s bloom to call their own.

Each spring, Hawthorn trees produce the Missouri state flower. These pretty white blossoms are made up of five petals, bear greenish-yellow stamens, and appear in globe-like clusters over the Hawthorn tree. Their numbers help to attract the pollinators needed to produce its valuable fruit. Hawthorn fruit resembles an apple yet is less than an inch across. It is a favorite source of nutrition for wildlife and can be used to make jams and jellies. Hawthorn fruits are also used in some herbal medicines.

In addition to its fruit, the tree on which the Missouri state flower grows is valued by wildlife for its ability to provide shelter. It grows quite thick and can reach heights of up to 25 feet. Such dense proportions make it an ideal home for numerous birds and mammals.

History

In Celtic lore, the Hawthorn plant was said to heal the broken heart.

Fun Fact

Hawthorn trees generally bear small red fruits, called haws, and have thorny branches – hence their name.

SOURCE: PROFLOWERS.COM

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    2. I’m quite familiar with him – he is known as a “Horse Whisperer” and I had one of his books (that story was included) until I recently gave all my horse books to my Sis’s GGD, who is wild about horses. He used to give clinics, not sure what he’s doing these days.

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      2. You gotta know the Dems and RINOs will try every dirty trick in the book to cast a pall or prevent Trump from an easy transition.

        They are only exposing themselves….to MAGA peeps who will help bring their perfidy to light and defeat them in their next election.

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    2. Good morning, GA! Asswipes, all of them!!! We got about 4″ of snow, temp @ 10 with an “excessive cold” warning out – my neighbor, Mark, has already plowed my DW and is now doing his own. Really great guy!

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  9. Morning All!

    hubby thinks THIS storm might miss us this time or we’ll get a little snow. we’ll see.

    we bought a seed feeder when we bought the Christmas tree and some seed for the chickadees. Well, we have chickadees, titmouses, juncos and nuthatches. they’ve been yanking the rest of the seeds out all over the deck (so we put the feeder on a tray) in search of the sunflower seeds. and the titmouses in particular are bigger and little nastier towards the other birds.

    well, hubby brings the feeder in a night and scoops all the seed they threw out onto the tray and dumps it right back on top and then refills more seed. next time we get seed, we might just buy all sunflower seeds to mix in with this seed–there’s some but not a lot lot.

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    1. Good morning, Pat! We’ve got about 4″ of snow on the ground and temp @ 10, with an excessive cold warning out for my region. Gonna get into the negatives. I can hear my neighbor outside with his snowplow….Mark plowed my DW before he started on his own! Such a sweetheart! Still no sign of Wheezer – hunkered down under a tree somewhere, I expect. BTW, you can buy seed that has more sunflower seeds – look for “black oil sunflower seeds.”

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      1. Morning Filly!
        stay warm!!
        we saw those seeds at walmart. we will have to buy a bag from there!
        this first bag we got from the farm store where they had the feeders. it was a spur of the moment purchase when we bought the feeder and the seeds. now we know better!

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        1. You can also buy bags of mixed seed since some of the smaller birds prefer the smaller seeds – some have more sunflower seeds than others.

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              2. No, I’ve not seen bags of shelled seeds for birds. Some are oiled, which makes them darker. IDK what the benefit is of the oil, tho. But all the birders always say “black oiled sunflower seeds.”

                EXCERPT: “What Are Black Oil Sunflower Seeds?

                Black oil sunflower seeds come from a cultivar (or modified version) of the sunflower plant Helianthus annuus. They’re an annual crop, used primarily for making cooking oil and as wild bird food.

                While still grown in North America, the largest producers are in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where they grow more readily than other oil-seed crops such as corn, soybeans and olives.

                Black oil sunflower seeds are popular for bird feeders because of their high oil content, which is beneficial for nutrition and calories. Also, their thin shells are easier for birds to crack open than other types of sunflower seeds. Humans generally don’t eat black oil sunflower seeds because the hulls are small and more difficult to shell.”

                https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/black-oil-sunflower-seeds/

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              3. Huh – I learned something, too – I always thought it was seeds coated with some kind of oil but it’s not.

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              4. Something else to think about – are they actual seeds they are throwing out or just the empty husks of the seeds? They are so small, it may not be noticeable.

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              5. no it’s seeds. lol
                when they scramble around on the tray and dig into the holes for the sunflower seeds, sometimes they throw them against the door/window. sounds like pebbles hitting the glass

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              6. I’ve got a shit-ton of them in the driveway just outside my patio, under the seed feeder and often see them slinging them out. Thankfully, most don’t grow at least! LOL

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  12. Harrison

    January 5, 2025 1:18 am

    As the mad rush to get as many in as possible – just in case…

    Getting a lot of DMs from Microsoft employees informing me they’ve been doing mass layoffs of Americans and then replacing the roles by contracting Cognizant who then outsources the work to India.

    Basically doing an end around through these fraudulent H-1B companies to avoid Trump’s tariff plan.

    I’m not super familiar with Trump’s tariff plan but it absolutely needs to put a steep cost on companies who shut down teams in America and then contract the work out overseas. The scale of this is actually more than the H-1B fraud.

    Intel too, wouldn’t be surprised if this is the model for every single big tech company. They enjoy special benefits from the US Government and then use that advantage to screw over the American worker. Creates a non-competitive environment. These are evil anti-american organizations and they need to be investigated.

    https://x.com/Anc_Aesthetics/status/1873615472731541571

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  14. “Good Morning.

    The Arizona Republic @azcentral is calling the Bible that Congressman Hamadeh @AbrahamHamadeh sworn in on an “unconventional documents”. Unreal, the Bible is now considered an “unconventional documents” by the writers at the Arizona Republic.”

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  15. Huh….not sure what she’s talking about but…..🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

    USMC Lady Vet: “I don’t know who to believe anymore, but watching Shawn Ryan that manifesto from the Cybertruck Vegas explosion? I am starting to believe that our government was trailing him as he says they were. Don’t forget his signal safety number changed and signal was hacked for Tucker Carlson also.”

    https://x.com/Arkypatriot/status/1875332031330009098

    https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/01/04/tinfoil-haturday-the-vegas-car-bomber-is-a-whistle-blower-n4935669

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  16. “Judge Strikes Down Gun Ban For Pot Smokers”

    Bearing Arms, By Tom Knighton | 8:30 AM | January 04, 2025

    AP Photo/Hans Pennink

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The government sends a lot of mixed signals when it comes to marijuana consumption. A lot of states have legalized it despite the federal prohibition on pot. DEA officials turn a blind eye to these sales, too, respecting states’ decision to legalize something that is still technically illegal.

    Where we get a problem, though, is when someone wants to use marijuana in accordance with state law but also wants to exercise their right to keep and bear arms. Federal law still applies and, unfortunately, the feds will actually enforce this law.

    Yet can they do so lawfully? Well, according to at least one judge, no, they can’t.

    Regularly smoking weed does not necessarily void a person’s Second Amendment rights, according to a new ruling by a federal judge in Texas.

    On Monday, US District Judge David Briones dismissed a criminal indictment against an El Paso man caught with multiple bags of marijuana and firearms in his home. He determined that the Government couldn’t prove the man was high at the time of his arrest. Therefore, his prosecution represented an unconstitutional application of the federal law that bans drug users from owning firearms.

    “Defendant is part of ‘the people’ whose conduct is covered and protected by the Second Amendment,” Judge Briones wrote in US v. Gil. “Because he is part of ‘the people,’ the Government had the burden to identify a historical analogue similar enough to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) to show that individuals like Defendant were disarmed at the time of the Founding. The Government failed to meet its burden. Therefore, the Court finds that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutional as applied to Defendant.”

    The decision highlights the continued legal fallout over the federal gun ban for drug users in the circuit that has done more to call it into question than any other. Though the states covered under the Fifth Circuit—Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana—all align with the Federal Government in prohibiting recreational marijuana use, the appellate court has nevertheless ruled in favor of the gun rights of marijuana users on multiple occasions over the last two years.

    Judge Briones, a Bill Clinton appointee seated in the Western District of Texas, leaned on those previous rulings to reach his decision.

    “The Fifth Circuit made clear that history and tradition do not support disarming someone solely based on past drug use,” he wrote.

    The fact that this was a Clinton appointee is interesting.

    One potential pitfall here is that I can actually see an argument being made that laws against carrying guns while drunk from the founding era could be seen as a parallel to the prohibition of marijuana users owning guns. There are major problems with that comparison, of course–namely that the drunks could still own guns no matter how often they were drunk, for example, while just using marijuana occasionally completely invalidates one’s Second Amendment rights, for example–but I can see the argument being made.

    The government failed to make sufficient connection and so this was shot down. Of course, that doesn’t mean the matter is settled. There’s still a lot to do before that can be the case,  potentially up to and including having the matter decided by the Supreme Court.

    It could also be solved by the incoming Congress. With pro-gun Republicans having control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, coupled with pro-pot Democrats still being plentiful enough, it should be a slam dunk to get something through putting an end to this prohibition. 

    I don’t think that’s going to be anyone’s priority, mind you, but it would be nice to see.”

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  18. SMH – please….STOP!!!!! I sure hope Trump reins in DARPA!!! STOP FUCKING WITH MOTHER NATURE!!!!

    EXCERPT: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding research to genetically engineer tomatoes to be able to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the whitefly, a common insect that damages tomato plants, Jon Fleetwood reported on Substack.

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — a division of the U.S. Department of Defense — also funded the research as part of its “Insect Allies” project, according to a study on the tomatoes published last month in BMC Plant Biology.

    Whiteflies, or Bemisia tabaci, are a common pest that drinks sap from phloem, the food-conducting tissue in tomato plant stems and leaves, sometimes causing the plant to dry up. The insects also excrete a sticky substance called honeydew, which attracts ants.

    Whiteflies can decimate crops. The BMC study estimates the pest causes $2 billion in annual losses in cassava production in Africa alone, which can cause food insecurity in regions that rely on the crop.

    The researchers aim to develop a genetic modification (GM) technology that could modify plants to produce proteins that target and destroy whitefly eggs. The authors note that targeting egg viability is a “unique strategy” for transgenic plants, setting it apart from most GM insecticidal plants that target adult insects.

    Fleetwood raised concerns about the technology’s potential to harm human health and the environment.

    “If commercialized, these ‘[t]ransgenic plants’ — genetically engineered to include genes from other species — could introduce reproductive-disrupting insecticidal compounds into the human food chain,” Fleetwood wrote.

    He continued: “Tomatoes engineered with insecticides to disrupt reproduction may sound like a breakthrough, but they raise critical questions about safety, transparency, and the ethics of modifying food crops to attack life at its reproductive core. As these technologies develop, consumers have a right to know: Are these the risks we’re willing to take with our food?”

    The DARPA Insect Allies program funds “scalable, readily deployable, and generalizable countermeasures” to natural and engineered threats to the U.S. food supply. The program seeks to provide “targeted therapies” to mature plants within a single growing season.

    However, in this case, the researchers encountered major technical problems in their experiments, molecular geneticist Michael Antoniou, Ph.D., told The Defender. That means the product remains far from commercialization, he said…..”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gmo-tomato-project-gates-foundation-dod-roadblock/

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  20. I’d stay there for a week-end, as long as the weather is good! Other than that, nope! Not a chance!

    Pictured is US Air Force Lt. Madison Marsh, who was also Miss Colorado last year and was named Miss America 2024.

    Madison Isabella Marsh is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 2024. She had previously been crowned Miss Colorado 2023, and was both the fourth woman representing Colorado and the first member of the United States Armed Forces to win the title of Miss America.

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  21. “The ‘logic’ behind this argument is that the car need not be plugged in to the grid in order to charge it’s batteries. It charges itself when it’s running on engine power, and that fact makes it evil and unworthy. Does that make your brain hurt as much as it does mine? 

    Something else that makes no sense? The Department for Transport (DfT) (England’s DOT) will ban the sale of new cars powered solely by internal combustion engines from January 1, 2030. Read more about it here, but you don’t need to – it’s soul sucking moronic nonsense on just the idea…”

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  23. Johnson on Maria this morning: “I hope we have full attendance – we’ve got a big snowstorm coming to DC and we encouraged all of our colleagues – ‘do not leave town, stay here’ – because, as you know, the Electoral Count Act requires this on Jan. 6 @ 1pm. So whether we’re in a blizzard or not, we are going to be in that Chamber making sure this is done.”

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  24. Listening to Maria and Ron Johnson re: eliminating the debt ceiling. I was wavering on that – whether to trust Trump and his level of control – or not. I’ve decided I agree with Ron Johnson: that’s a hard no. Just imagine what could happen with NO debt ceiling at all?!? And what if something happens to Trump AFTER that has been lifted??? Holy cow! No, I want that safety valve (such as it is) left in place.

    What I’d really like to see is a Presidential line-item veto for ALL budgets!!!

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  29. Clarion

    Clarion

    January 5, 2025 12:02 pm

    Every successful American company is being destroyed by China via Amazon.

    It’s true.

    Look at majority Amazon product listings. It’s all no name brand junk replacements.

    Every single listing now is things like: BCKSJS Dart Set or LLCJW Fidget Spinner or DEETKA Basketball

    This is China taking over quietly. @Amazon, time to help America, not 🇨🇳

    — Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) January 3, 2025

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        1. I’ve never tried it but IDK why it wouldn’t work. Plus, you can order on-line from individual stores as well. There are always options. It’s kind of like blaming the machine instead of the operators.

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    2. Clarion

      January 5, 2025 11:59 am

      More and more the Amazon scandals are coming to light. Way bigger than I thought. Note that part of the scamdemic was forcing alternatives to these giants out of business.

      Scott Adams

      @ScottAdamsSays

      The Amazon counterfeit product scandal is way worse than I thought. It’s massive. I wouldn’t hold the stock until it gets sorted out.

      100% of the Dilbert calendars on Amazon are fake. I don’t sell the calendar on Amazon. And Amazon has an (intentionally) broken system for reporting the fakes. The fakes come faster than the reporting system.

      I’m hearing incredible stories of Amazon abusing American small business owners by essentially being accomplices in stealing their work and giving it to China. The system is so robust that ANY successful American product China can copy gets knocked off.

      More on that story today.

      https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1875153196542480582

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          1. Personally, I think crap like this is waaay out of control. You cannot protect everyone from everything all the time. Life means danger – it is what it is.

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            1. i still think anyone working with food should not have it free flowing if it’s beyond should length. maybe not a hairnet, but at least have it in a pony tail. hair in my food would make me vomit on the spot.

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              1. After all the myriad places I’ve eaten in all my travels, including many a dingy dive, there’s not a whole lot that bothers me any more.

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  32. We’re up to 15 now and the sun is starting to peek thru finally. But clear skies mean colder temperatures so it’s a double-edged sword!

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  38. China steps up emergency measures amid new virus outbreak…

    China is experiencing a surge in infections of a respiratory virus, leading to overcrowded hospitals, emergency measures, and public concerns about an outbreak.

    The virus, identified as human metapneumovirus (HMPV), has seen cases spiking across northern Chinese provinces this winter, particularly among children.

    The outbreak comes five years after the world was first alerted to the emergence of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, which later turned into a global pandemic with seven million deaths reported.

    How long until the news talks about that one dude that just came back from China on a business trip like they did last time? That’ll be the starting gun for America’s involvement in the upcoming pandemic…

    I still remember when Bill Gates said the next pandemic you will notice…I’m not falling for this malarkey again lol…”

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  39. “Las Vegas Cybertruck blast suspect Matthew Livelsberger took part in a military TV reality competition on the History Channel. He was cast to appear on a show called “The Ultimate Soldier Challenge.” Livelsberger and his Green Beret partner took on two teams in a series of military challenges. He talked about his love of guns. At one point, Livelsberger had to stop production due to heat exhaustion…”

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  40. “So many psyops right now… What are they trying to hide?

    Yep, as Simpsons writer Mike Reiss tells us in the book Springfield Confidential: “Let me put these conspiracy rumors to rest once and for all: they are completely true…”

    I love this humor…From the book “Springfield Confidential…”

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  44. “Zelensky Admits Trump Can Stop the War in Ukraine”

    Clandestine, January 5, 2025

    (VIDEO)

    “Eyes on 👀👀👀

    Zelensky admits that Trump’s influence creates “confidence that he can stop this war.” Zelensky is only admitting this now, because Trump is about to assume office. However, by admitting this, Zelensky is confirming the Biden regime’s incompetence.

    If Trump is able to stop this war, it will confirm that the Biden regime were instigating this war. They had the ability to end this war, and not only did they fail to do so, they actively fueled it by supplying Ukraine with money, weapons, intelligence, and assisted Ukraine in using NATO missiles to strike inside Russia.

    If Trump is able to stop this war, it will confirm that Obama, Biden, and the rest of the Deep State, are responsible for WW3. They are responsible for the deaths of millions, used our tax dollars to pay for it, and used mass manipulation and propaganda to cover it up.

    ‘Treason’ is an understatement.”

    Video: https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/zelensky-admits-trump-can-stop-the

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  46. “Sun Bowl, and a very craggy, snow blasted ridge in the distance”

    “Small natural avalanche at Sun Bowl, near Green Butte.”

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  49. GDI!!! I had at least 30 episodes of Dr. Quinn saved and somehow, in attempting to delete ONE episode (since it was a duplicate), ALL of them got deleted…..grrrrr…..and it’s not on the schedule anymore. Those were my back-up go-to’s when there was nothing else on worth watching.

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    1. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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