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Wow that is a really cool plant. I'm guessing it is not carnivorous at all though. The trichomes are too far apart to be effective trapping mechanisms and it probably would have been mentioned by now.
As Google is telling me, Calycoseris parryi is a desert species.
Maybee the flowers are not pollinated by flying insects but by crawling insects and the extrafloral nectaries of this plant are used as some runway markings for the insects crawling up the stem to lead the insects into the flower for pollination?
BTW: There are several hundreds of plant species with extrafloral nectaries, some of them are well known garden plants and their sticky hairs even can catch insects, like those from tomato plants, vetches and petunia, for example.
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