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High mountain wildflowers, Sierra de Gredos
Texture pattern created by flowering grass lying chaotically on a black background.
Cowparsley and butter cup flowering together
Hemiptera wax Cicadellidae insects on wild plants, North China
The flowers of meadowsweet or filipendula ulmaria
Fragrant virgin's bower (Clematis flammula)
A flowering erica. Maggia. Vallemaggia District. Ticino. Swizterland.
Prickly Saxifrage or Saxifraga tricuspidata, small cream coloured flowers with orange spots. Prickly saxifrage is a loosely matted perennial, that grows in large bunches, close to the ground. Arviat, Nunavut, Canada
Single wasps eating yarrow nectar on a sunny summer day.
Luzula nivea or snow-white wood-rush green plant
white Queen Anne's lace flower against green background
A blooming tree with white puffs
Sagina (Irish Moss)
Alpine plants in Mount Kitadake ( Scientific name : Minuartia arctica var. hondoensis ).Mount Kitadake is known as the second highest mountain in Japan.
Fools parsley in a grass meadow
Small young green sprouts of a plant on black background close up
Wasps eating yarrow nectar in summer.
A close-up shows green grass, its stem, leaves, inflorescence.
Bunch of beautiful white flowers.
Polygonaceae plants are on a black background
Robust tall, almost hairless perennial, to 2m; stems hollow, ridged, generally winged with purple. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, with oblong, sharply toothed segments; upper leaves reduced to large inflated sheaths and partially enclosing the developing umbels. Flowers white or pinkish, 2mm, in umbels 3-15cm across, with numerous rays; bracts few and soon falling, or absent. Fruit oval, (with 3 outstanding ridges) 4-5mm, with membranous wings.
empty snail shell hanging from the end of a grass leaf
Colorful spring garden daisies and other grass flowers
Lichens on an apple tree branch in an orchard.
Fool's parsley in a wildflower meadow.
This is tree fungi are, in the broadest sense, all fungi that colonize and degrade wood
Summer/Autumn Flowers
Amarant, or shiritsa (Latin Amaranthus) is a widespread genus of mainly annual herbaceous plants with small flowers, collected in dense spike-paniculate inflorescences.
Medium to tall, rather bristly biennial; stem erect, purple or purple spotted. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, dark green, but eventually turning purple; leaflets oval, toothed. Flowers white, 2mm, in compound umbels which are nodding in bud, the petals hairless; bracts usually absent, bracteoles hairy.  Fruit oblong, tapered towards the apex, 4-7mm, often purple.\nHabitat: Rough grassland, semi shaded places, on well drained soils, generally in low attitudes.\nFlowering Season: May-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe; absent from the Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.\n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.\nToxicity:\nChaerophyllum temulum contains (mainly in the upper parts and fruits) a volatile alkaloid chaerophylline, as well as other (probably glycosidally bound) toxins, the chemistry and pharmacology of which has, as yet, been but little studied. Externally, the sap of the plant can cause inflammation of the skin and persistent rashes. If consumed, the plant causes gastro-intestinal inflammation, drowsiness, vertigo and cardiac weakness. Human poisonings have seldom been observed, because the plant lacks aromatic essential oils that could lead to its being confused with edible umbellifers used to flavour food. It is, however, used occasionally in folk medicine. Animal poisonings by the plant are commoner than those of humans, pigs and cattle thus intoxicated exhibiting a staggering gait, unsteady stance, apathy and severe, exhausting colic, ending sometimes in death. \nHerbal medicine:\nChaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose (source Wikipedia).
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