Moraea neglecta getting on

This deep yellow Moraea neglecta flower appears to be through the mill a bit from servicing its pollinator clientele. The three bigger tepals have their tips bent down around halfway, from occupational stress or age, the two often leaving similar results. (The lazy ones of the world accumulate the same visible wear and tear signs as the diligent ones, don’t they? Some levelling even before death.)

The smaller tepals are still more erect, less mass to manage. Judging for the one small tepal captured clearly by the camera, they are more clawed in this specimen, narrower at the base, the tips more spoon-shaped. Spoons like this won’t work well at all, however, as there are no hollows in the heads for scooping food (Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).