Sego lily faces?

The outrageous sego lily bloom we're having this year has provided opportunity for much lily gazing and photographing. (It took us four hours to make the two hour drive to our creekside camp last weekend because we kept having to stop for flower viewing, sniffing, photographing...) In the process, I've noticed that the interior designs of sego lilies -- the bits that zero the pollinators in to the juicy parts -- are not all the same. Two eyes, a nose and a mouth appear on the faces of most humans, in approximately the same arrangement, yet the details of those features provide much of our unique physical identities. Could it be the same for sego lilies? Is each one unique? Can pollinators identify individual flowers? Why would they need to?

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

From dirt & dogs

~trina