Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.

One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte^[1] of the plant kingdom.

In the Southeastern U.S., where I live, you know it’s spring when your car has turned yellow^[2] and pollen blankets your patio furniture and anything else left outside....