Belly Flower

A belly flower is a small low-growing flower you have to get down on the ground to see. This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “Belly Flower”

I’ve just learned what a belly flower is.

What’s that, a tramp stamp that’s on the front and not the back?

No.

No, it’s a term for a small, low-growing wildflower, the kind that you have to get down on your belly to see.

Okay, belly flower, that’s nice.

It’s a term that you hear mostly in the West, particularly California, a belly flower.

You go out to the desert, Anza Borrego Desert, you see all these little belly flowers.

We had a great bloom this year.

Oh, didn’t we?

The super bloom.

All the rain.

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