Why don’t you see what types of wild flowers are in your area?
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Pictures by Miranda, Words by Violet 🙂
Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs
33 responses to “Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs”
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These wildflowers are beautiful. 🙂
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They are aren’t they? Thank you for your comment 🙂
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Lovely Summer wildflowers 🙂 Knapweed is a favourite in our family too … especially for bee-on-a-flower photo opportunities 🙂
[From the way the flowers grow, I think your willowherb looks like it is most probably Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) rather than Rosebay Willowherb … here’s my Rosebay to compare – http://oaktreesstudio.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/purple-wildflowers-of-summer/ :)]LikeLike
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Thank you Peggy, I knew I could depend on your expertise. I have looked at your post to compare the willowherbs – amazing photos by the way – and I have to say I can’t tell the difference so I am impressed by your knowledge. Babs comes across as confident but she only knows what google tells her 😉
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You are welcome, Violet. I think that post was something of a family effort on the photos!
I think it can sometimes be difficult to identify ‘unknown’ plants just from photos … I was tussling with one myself just last evening 😉
The main differences between the two willowherbs are:
Great Willowherb flowers are larger and have a white/pale central ‘eye’;
Rosebay Willowherb has four separated petals whereas the four petals of Great Willowherb tend to be slightly larger and overlap each other at the base;
on Rosebay Willowherb the flowers all grow together in a terminal spike whereas on Great Willowherb the flowers are rather more separated from each other on the plant.
Both plants are very common and are often found growing in clumps in the same area, though Great Willowherb is more likely on damper ground.I enjoyed the fascinating plant lore Babs found to go with her pics 😉 I love learning about all the old medicinal uses of plants through the ages.
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Wonderful. 🙂 Is Babs going to do more of these?
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Great fun post 🙂 Enjoyed it thoroughly….Thanks Miranda, Violet and Babs!
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So glad you enjoyed it 😉 thanks for the lovely comment
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love wildflowers – UK has some very interesting ones. i miss them. eve
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We’ve seen so many different ones this year – amazing 🙂
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