Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. A picture of this plant on a FB group will attract scores of uninvited posts giving stupid advice and spouting lies about it killing horses and needing gloves to handle and other hate speech. If horses are made to eat this stuff, either by starvation (shit grazing) or trickery (dried in silage) then it will ultimately kill them. Otherwise they avoid it. They are experts in which plants to eat. #PlantADay #Botany #Nature #Plant #Wildflower #BloomScrolling
#australia #wildflower #pilbara North of Newman a rest stop on the way to Port Hedland.
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ムラサキカタバミとドクダミの花
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Trees are flowers too! This one's an Ash I think, with a clump of Gorse at it's foot. It's a field boundary tree, growing on an old fence line.There are lots of these, I'm wondering if they are the remnants of Wood Pasture where the trees in the field were cleared for more grazing/crops? I'm pleased to say Wood Pasture is making a bit of a comeback round our way, as it's VERY good for the cattle. and there are grants!
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Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Oedemera nobilis) feeding at a Common Twayblade (Neottia ovata) orchid flower. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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The strange flower of a Spurge, this one the common small one which thrives in urban areas, Petty Spurge, Euphorbia peplus. It has no petals or sepals, just the naughty bits. The large thing dangling down is, unintuitively, the female flower, the bit on top is the male (you can see the pollen).
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