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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on August 12, 2015, 19:16:07

Title: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: David Paterson on August 12, 2015, 19:16:07

One is ours.

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: Andrea B. on August 12, 2015, 19:24:31

Those are beautiful ! I love meadows. I could roam in them for hours.

I don't recognize the flower in the first foto. Is that a Cow Parsley perhaps?

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on August 12, 2015, 19:39:13

Wild Angelica Angelica silvestris. Common on damp, fertile soil and meadows.

Dave: all these meadows are delightful. So good to see biodiversity is allowed.

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: Andrea B. on August 12, 2015, 19:41:23

Umbelliferae are so graceful. Angelica, ok. Thx!

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: David Paterson on August 12, 2015, 19:42:41

Thanks, Andrea. Meadows, especially in the late summer, are delightful, as you say.

The flowers of the various types of cow-parsely, ground-elder, hogweed and angelica are often too similar for an amateur like me to differentiate, but in this case I'll go for one of the many species of angelica, on the basis of a description I came across  "flowers often tinged with pink". I don't think any of the others show this variation.

No doubt Bjørn will put us right.

*Later* He already has - I was a little slow there, but I'm glad I made the correct ID. Thanks, Bjørn.

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: Andrew on August 12, 2015, 20:16:35

very well done, that difficult topic for me...

Title: Re: Three mid-August meadows
Post by: Frank Fremerey on August 12, 2015, 20:28:18

Violet I see this year often. More often than other. Perception is playing tricks on me.