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Clammyweed - Polanisia dodecandra
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Clammyweed - Polanisia dodecandra
 
Clammyweed has a rank odor due to fetid oils exuded from its clammy-like hairs.  Grazing animals avoid this plant.  Clammyweed is closely related to Rocky Mountain Beeplant.
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Elk were the most widely distributed member of the deer family in North America and spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Mexico to northern Alberta. Elk began to disappear in the eastern United States in the early 1800s.
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