out and about - 2017
25 June 2017 .............. A mystery flower
Heading up the road this evening, and I just happened to notice in amongst all the thick growth of the uncut verge an unusual flower - the seed head was a perfect sphere - a bit like a dandelion seed head, but it definitely wasn`t a dandelion.
The seed head was on top of a long thin stalk maybe about 600 or 700 mm`s high, and it was constructed differently to the dandelion seed head -
Just above it and to its left you can see another seed head forming.
I haven`t seen it before, and it turns out it is quite rare - it was another couple of kilometres along the road before I saw another one, then I didn`t see any more all the time I was out around the back roads.
Heading back down the road, and maybe a few hundred metres from the first one was another couple of them a few metres apart on the other side of the road.
I don`t recall ever seeing them before, and I haven`t seen them since, so they aren`t common.
I do have a couple of good books that might show them, but they are all packed up in boxes so I can`t get to them, and Google has failed to provide any sort of identification, maybe I am not asking the right questions - so a bit of a mystery as to what it is.
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