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This could just as easily be C. squarrosus in my opinion, but when I flatten the spikelet scales they were slightly greater than 1 mm broad. The scales also had 9-10 veins, and the achenes seemed slightly less than 2x as long as broad depending on how I oriented them. Weakley mentions the achenes of C. granitophilus being cuneate to the base (which these are) but doesn't describe the shape for C. squarrosus. I can also imagine the basal bit being a minute stipe on the achenes which adds to my uncertainty.

Hanging out in a corn field. Saw two adults, one with at least four young and the other with at least one. Another young individual wasn't too far from the second adult, but they blended in well so I imagine there were plenty more we didn't see.

Megachile cutting petals for her nest. She carried them down to the stems in the brush and seemed to be shoving them into a cracked stem at the base of the flowers. There is that Silver-tailed Petal-cutting bee, maybe she is one of those?