Three mid-August meadows

[David Paterson]

One is ours.

[Andrea B.]

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?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

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

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

[Andrea B.]

Umbelliferae are so graceful. Angelica, ok. Thx!

[David Paterson]

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.

[Andrew]

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

[Frank Fremerey]

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