Desmanthus leptolobus
Overview
 
Desmanthus leptolobus (commonly known as Prairie mimosa, Prairie bundleflower or Slenderlobed bundleflower) is an inconspicuous and more or less prostrate plant of the genus Desmanthus
Desmanthus
Desmanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 24 species of herbs and shrubs that are sometimes described as being suffruiticose and have bipinnate leaves. Desmanthus is closely related to Leucaena and in appearance is similar...

. It can be found growing wild in many areas of the south central US. While it is easily overlooked, it is often locally abundant over large expanses of rolling prairie.

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Quotations

"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

Barack Hussein Obama, Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, 1995.

"You guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it is our turn."

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood_Marshall|Thurgood Marshall (in a conversation with Justice William Douglas about racial preferences), William O. Douglas, The Court Years 1939-1975, New York, Random House, 1980.

"Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian."

"The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact."

Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. ~ Mark Twain

 
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