A safe place for all things flowering. We would love to see your wildflower finds.
Looks like a white specimen too, rather than the more usual pink. So much of this around me - on the east coast of England - has suffered due to the drought last year and is pretty much dead. Not all though, and we will get a better view of how it is doing when the flowers open in another few days
[Image description: a small thin-stalked flower with three white petals with yellow and purple splotches near the center, and prominent white stamen.]
Along with madder and woad, one of the staples dyes of the ancient world.
The most drought-tolerant of the UK heathers, which has left it in a good place on the lowland heaths of England's east coast this year. Ling and Crossed-leaved heath are suffering.
In the UK, with a soldier beetle in attendance.
Just a random field we stumbled across in the forest. Northern California.
