"The Earth laughs in flowers..."
........Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have really enjoyed looking at and photographing the wildflowers this spring
a few splashes of yellow remain in country ditches
Big white fluffy flowers in ditches and along fence posts
"blossom by blossom the spring begins...."
.....Algernon Charles Swinburne
dainty yellow flowers in our fields |
Big bunches of this are scattered throughout the country ditches:
I have always called this "Queen Anne's Lace". I have heard it called wild carrot too.
But I've recently read there is a look alike to Queen Anne's Lace that is toxic.
One way to tell the difference is the funny old saying "the Queen has hairy legs!" Real Queen Anne's lace plants have hairy looking stems and the toxic ones are quite smooth and also have purple splotches.
The ones I photographed today have very smooth stalks, so since I don't know for sure, I didn't touch them.
Never heard of poison hemlock before but for a couple yrs now I have. Funny, how all of sudden its a problem. But apparently if the stem has pink in it, then stay away. I love to shoot flowers and bugs or animals. Nice flowers. I am hoping by next yr mine will have spread, established better and will be full of lots of blooms....I can hope, just not sure of the soil here.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like most of our wildflwers that we were enjoying the the spring are gone for the heat of summer. I do see brown eyed susans along the roads and some other wildflowers here and there. If we keep getting some good rain maybe more flowers will start blooming here. You have so much beauty around you. You are blessed my friend.
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