Such a fate seems to have befallen Jim Hill mustard, which, as Mariani recounts, was " a Northwestern term for a wild mustard discovered in the 1890s, when James Jerome Hill ( 1838-1916 ) built the Great Northern Railway to Seattle ."
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Across the state, from the high desert to the lowlands of the Gulf Coast, dozens of other kinds of wildflowers can be spotted : among them, ocotillo, goldenrod, lemonmint, spiderwort, white prickly poppy, Mexican hat, black-eyed Susan, lanatan, cedar sage, and wild mustard.
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Under the family Andrenidae is the species Perdita portalis, in which observations have suggested it is oligolectic . " Perdita portalis " is a communal, ground nesting bee that has been found to preferentially pollinate certain host flowers of the same species . " Andrena agilissima " is another oligolectic mining bee that prefers different types of wild mustard and radish plants.
