New species of catnip has been discovered
The plant has some unusual properties compared to its more familiar relative. Common catnip (Nepeta cataria) has a chemical in the foliage which produces a pleasant intoxicating effect on most cats. This new species (named Nepeta nanohedrensis) causes cats to flop down nearby and then look at you sardonically.
Here are two close up pictures of the plant.
Ugly little suckers up close ain’t they? 
Excellent! I love hearing about new scientific discoveries!!!
careful, they’s likely to grow on ya! 
cool
You know, I think I had some of that on a salad the other day.
And really, I didn’t feel sardonic at all. Actually, I got up and started snatching people’s dinner rolls out of their hands. It was weird.
Oh great. Another durn weed to try to keep our of my flowers. 
Heh, I almost believed you
What an awful thought. 
thank you! 
I’m waiting for Nano to show up. After all, Dr. L. N. Pypes named this species after him and his sardonic cat. What a great honor to have a species named after him-- he’s been granted taxonomic immortality!
I used to work for a botany prof. named Joe Hennen, who was an expert in fungi, specifically, the fungi commonly known as rust. Really interesting things, with very complex life cycles and multiple hosts. Anyway, whenever he discovered a new species he got a chance to name it after a friend or colleague. Meanwhile he had a very good friend, also a fungus expert, who looked for new species of smut fungus (the stuff that grows on shower curtains), and he named them after his friends. So Dr. Hennen told me that there was a species called Hennen’s Smut.
…a dubious honor
I found a video for “Fishing For Cats”
it wasn’t very good 
oh, to have your own smut…
:waiting for Jim:
Just goes to show the good “doctor” ought to go back to school; there’s common catnip all over heck around my little slice of paradise.
Nepeta nanohedrensis? L. N. Pypes??? Too funny. You are having too much fun with your art program for it to be healthy, Caroluna. 
What art program? I found the picture on Wiki. I seem to have lost the link though.
Nepeta nanohedrensis? L. N. Pypes???
Hey, sometimes reality is stranger than fiction!
I am the last person you’d have to tell that.
And I don’t even want to think about shower smut. I’m sure there are websites for that. Keep your firewalls up to date, kids.
smut fungus (the stuff that grows on shower curtains)
Just an aside to point out that if one showers neatly, one does not require a shower curtain.
Just to let you know, Lamby: every time you post things like this, I’m sure people think you’re insufferably tightas…I mean, prim.
an, maybe, petite…
try that when ya interrupt the water over a foot higher… 
I just realised what this means: I can never change my avatar, now. Not that I was ever going to, but, still, you know.