Morten St George Theory

[Linda]

Please note that I did not say that all the plants are fake but only the "majority" of them. For example, I have no complaints about the water lily, a native American plant, on f2v.

Water lilies grow all over the world. That specific species grows all over the world, New World, Old World. It's a common plant. Forget about it being North American, just think of it as circumboreal, because that's what it is.

I would agree that the use of this plant as a basis for american origin of the vms is problematic for that reason. The sunflower idea is even more problematic since there is even less agreement as to the genus of the plant, not to mention species.