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Just 4 to 6 inches tall, the humble plant is, in one particular way, the most remarkable living thing in the world.

If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a gigantic genome, scientists do, too.

In her more than 350 references to flowers, the rose is most frequent, but Dickinson was also fond of humble plants like dandelions, clover and daisies.

They were the exquisite blooms of the jimson weed, that humble plant which grows undisturbed in every country barn lot in Kentucky.

The humble plants and flowers: grasses, mosses, ferns, and water plants.