Posted by KFredenburg (Black Hills, SD - Zone 5a) on Jun 23, 2020 9:48 PM concerning plant:
The genus name comes from the Greek erion (which means "wool") and trichos (which means "hair"), referring to the hairs on the plants, which on Howard's Alpine Forget-Me-Not (E. howardii) of western Montana and northern Wyoming are so dense they usually hide the leaf surface.
