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These delicate orchid-like beauties were growing among the gravel on the Grand Trunk Railroad grade.
If you pick a spiderwort, it gets its revenge by oozing slimy sap all over the place.
Why are they called spiderworts? It's all a mistake, according to Jack Sanders: "Spiderworts don't look like spiders, nor do they attract them. They were named in error for another plant that was supposed to cure the bite of a poisonous spider."
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