#brown knapweed

[kristo-flowers]

Purple flowers of brown knapweed

#knapweed #brown knapweed #flowers #wildflowers #photography #pink and green #a game of tones #nature #wild #i have this thing with flowers #original photography #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #lensbaby #pws

[ifelten]

Humlebi (Bombus sp.) på almindelig knopurt (Centaurea jacea)

Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.) on Brown Knapweed (Centaurea jacea)

#Humlebi #Bombus #Bumble bee #Almindelig knopurt #Centaurea jacea #Centaurea #Brown Knapweed #Knupurt #Knapweed #Plante #Plant #Asteraceae #Sommer #Summer #Mark #Field #Topbjerg

[dansnaturepictures]

19/06/2023-Lakeside and home 

Photos taken in this set: 1. Steeplebush out the front which has come out lovely for our return home. 2. My first purple loosestrife of the year at Lakeside a flower I’ve loved seeing for a long time at this time of year. 3. Greylag Goose gosling. 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9. Views of a lovely long grassed Lakeside. 6. Knapweed which I enjoyed again today. 10. Three adorable Great Crested Grebe chicks. It was an honour to watch this family and another family on the other lake today, I haven’t witnessed two Great Crested Grebe families with chicks at once since I’ve been regularly really visiting Lakeside from 2020 onwards so this is so exciting. It was so lovely to see the original chicks grown up and out on the water with parents after seeing some of them in their very early life just before going away with the other family hatching later further behind with the chicks on the mother’s back predominantly. These are joyous times of year when Great Crested Grebe chicks emerge. 

There was good continuity between Hayling Island yesterday and Lakeside/the general walk at lunch time today with my first Marbled Whites at Lakeside this year a joy to see and Meadow Browns, St. John’s-wort out the front and at Lakeside alongside the knapweed, and indeed with North Wales last week with pyramidal orchid, agrimony and self-heal species I first saw this year last week enjoyed today. My first great willowherb of the year another distinctive summer species, Canada Geese and quite grown goslings, Black-headed Gull and Mallard seen well, Black-tailed Skimmer and House Martins sailing through the air were other highlights at Lakeside. Yarrow and oxeye daisies in the flower bed area on the way and buddleia and lavender in the garden, as well as Magpie, Woodpigeon and Starling at home were other good moments today.

#photography #england #lakeside #lakeside country park #uk #world #nature #happy #knapweed #marbled white #meadow brown #great crested grebe #great crested grebes #chicks #house martin #birdwatching #butterflies #meadow brown. #st. john's-wort #great willowherb #purple loosestrife #europe #hampshire #2023 #outdoors #lunch time #walk #walking #lunch time walk

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 18 July 2023

On a roadside verge by a cottage was this fine plant of Centaurea macrocephala (giant knapweed, Aremanian basket flower). This herbaceous perennial has stiff stems carrying large, shining buds of brown papery scales from which burst the yellow thread-like flower petals.

Jill Raggett

#Centaurea #giantknapweed #Aremanianbasketflower #yellowflowers #herbaceousperennial #perennial #herbaceous #plants #horticulture #gardens #garden #orkney

[madelyngreen1943]

Solidago Gigantea, also known as tall goldenrod is a perennial herb that reaches heights of 6.6 ft tall. It is a widespread species and most typically found in North America, east of the Rocky Mountains. A fun fact is that an herbal tea can be made with the flowers.

Brown Knapweed is a species of herbaceous perennial plants and is typically found in dry meadows and open woodland throughout Europe and North America. It flowers mainly from June to September. A fun fact is that it can grow in disturbed sunny areas, such as road ditches and woodland clearings.

Lance-Leaved Aster is  a species of flowering plant native to North America. It can be found in mostly moist and open habitats, such as riparian areas, meadows and ditches. A fun fact is that “aster” in Greek means “star”, and they are a part of the daisy family.

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea), some kind of chamomile, crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) and field scabious (Knautia arvensis)

June 2023

#chamomile #knapweed #clover #scabious #flower #plant #dai's photos

[judethebrood]

PT 1/2~~

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#transgender #very gay #T4T #memories #pride #My favorite person #gay shit #queer #Memories #A year out #anniversary #happy anniversary my dear #love #111 #Long distance trauma LOL

[petnews2day]

Country diary: A wood mouse prepares for winter | Wildlife

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Country diary: A wood mouse prepares for winter | Wildlife

They were meant for the birds and the bees: a pair of dwarf sunflowers whose bright heads shone up at my kneecaps. Summer ran according to plan, the plants abuzz with insects sipping on their stores of nectar. When yellow and green browned into autumn, the sunflowers’ edible faces matured, each disc like a compound eye, only packed with seeds. We thought then that we would reprise their summer colours by attracting greenfinches and goldfinches to feed on them. We cut down the stems and laid them outside the patio doors, aiming to string them up for the birds that weekend.

For the next two mornings, reading over breakfast was interrupted by a movement in the corner of my eye. Though I searched the patio, I could not spot the elusive bird. A wren, I half-decided. On the second morning, my wife, Sarah, called me downstairs to sit at the patio window and watch for the invisible wren. After a few minutes, it appeared from behind a flowerpot, halting like a nervous actor at the curtained edge, fearful of stepping out onstage. Not a wren, but a wood mouse, with bulging blackcurrant eyes and huge round ears on a tiny body, the accentuated features of a nocturnal rodent that, right now, was making the most of a diurnal feast. Or rather a feast deferred, for it was soon evident that this mouse was collecting to cache.

It scampered out towards the sunflowers in a loping run, its whitish legs and feet a scissored blur, trailing the thinnest of tails, then stopped in front of one disc, raised itself on its hind legs and gnawed one of the seeds out of the sunflower’s face, before whipping off back behind the flowerpot. Twice more we watched it race and wrestle a seed from the sunflower, returning to the ivy-roofed border, where it could run with the voles among a tangle of logs and branches, and fill its burrowed tunnels with supplies for winter.

As for the goldfinches, they have a stand of knapweed, whose stems cannot bear the weight of even the lightest mouse.

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#Small Pets News

[thegrandimago]

Taken the same day, I don't often get to take pictures of butterflies given how shy they can be, but this was a special occurrence. A common brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni), or citronfjäril, held still long enough for a picture. In Sweden, they occur wherever there are alder buckthorn, which is found in wetlands, or common buckthorn, which grows in drier limestone soil. The adults in spring feed on the nectar of willows and coltsfoot, while feeding during the summer from red clover, plume/plumeless thistles, brown knapweed, and field/devil's-bit scabious. Their univoltine life-cycle begins mid-April when adults lay their eggs beneath the leaves of the buckthorns mentioned, where they hatch after a week. The caterpillars can be found May-July, though they are cryptic. The caterpillars grow to full size in a month before pupating. Within less than two weeks, a fully developed butterfly emerges, usually during early July staying active from July-August, with no mating occurring. When September arrives, they go into hibernation, regardless of temperature or weather, within woodlands or wetlands with alder buckthorn and will do so upside-down to mimic a yellowed leaf. At the end of February, they become active again and, in spring, males will release pheromones to attract mates to continue the life-cycle. This one was probably a male since they are distinguished by the sulfur yellow wings, while female wings are greenish-white. #animal #animals #djur #wildlife #insect #insects #naturliv #natur #fauna #arthropod #arthropods #insekt #insekter #invertebrate #invertebrates #butterfly #butterflies #fjärilar #fjäril #vitfjärilar #insectagram #animalia #arthropoda #insecta #lepidoptera #pieridae #gonepteryx #gonepteryxrhamni #commonbrimstone #citronfjäril (at Flogsta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg56b1Ug-6R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#animal #animals #djur #wildlife #insect #insects #naturliv #natur #fauna #arthropod #arthropods #insekt #insekter #invertebrate #invertebrates #butterfly #butterflies #fjärilar #fjäril #vitfjärilar #insectagram #animalia #arthropoda #insecta #lepidoptera #pieridae #gonepteryx #gonepteryxrhamni #commonbrimstone #citronfjäril

[ash3]

Such a dear memory of meadows

#my art #Centaurea jacea #brown knapweed #brownray knapweed

[sneeuwmanfred]

Inktober 19-20-21-22. I enjoyed drawing these. It’s fun to have some detail. I drew:  Common toadflax, Water mint, evening primrose and Brown knapweed. It’s already end october and the evening primrose is still flowering every evening. such a curious plant

#inktober2019 #Inktober #dutch plants #Dutch nature #water mint #common toadflax #evening primrose #brown knapweed #knoopkruid #teunisbloem #watermunt #vlasbekje

[jupera2002]

Living on a brown knapweed. The brown knapweed seems to be a real nectar flower, much more than its garden relatives like perennial cornflower or cornflower. Butterflies, honey bees, bumble bees and hoover flies are regular visitors. One can also speculate that it is prettier and more beautiful than its garden relatives.

#brown knapweed #ahdekaunokki #butterfly #butterflies #perhonen #honeybee #bumblebee #kimalainen #mehiläinen #hoover fly #kukkakärpänen #Suomenoja #espoo

[dansnaturepictures]

24/06/2023-Durlston 

Wildlife photos taken in this set: 1. Great Green Bush-cricket, a stunning and giant insect that was a surprise star of this annual summer trip of ours today, the first I’d ever seen it was fascinating to. 2. Carrot with an ichneumon wasp on. 3. Stunning centaury. 4. A dazzling Lulworth Skipper, glowing golden in the sunshine. It was a true honour to see these rare butterflies again today, and the grasses were teeming with them. It topped a strong showing for them when we were here last summer I think for how many we saw, the earliest in a year we’d seen them. It was just so joyful to see the luminous crescents on the wings of the females and dinky dusky males. They are exceptional butterflies and I felt so lucky to see them, a big moment in my year. 5. A lovely Roe Deer. 6. A Peregrine, it was wonderful to see two adults and two chicks on the cliffs. The family featured on Springwatch recently, it was brilliant to enjoy these birds I love so much in a different setting and see this family that are doing well. 7. A red bit of bird’s-foot trefoil among beautiful thyme which I enjoyed a lot again today. 8. Stonechat which I enjoyed seeing today, like Peregrine this is where I first ever saw one in 2007 so it felt special to photograph these two today. 9. Three Six-spot Burnets with a skipper behind on knapweed. This precious flower hosted insect fests today alongside the thyme with Lulworth Skippers, Marbled White, Small Skipper, Swollen-thighed beetle, Six-spot Burnet and the cricket creeping up on one patch of knapweed and loads of Meadow Browns and Lulworths on some thyme key moments. A takeaway from this key trip of our year was how insect rich the meadows were. 10. A Small Skipper on scabious, I saw my first wild scabious this year here today. 

Also of note today were my first Gatekeepers of the year on bramble on arrival my earliest ever sighting of one in a year which was great, Large Skipper, Dark Green Fritillary, Small Heath (I can’t have often seen them, Gatekeeper and Meadow Brown on a day species that look alike who’s seasons don’t always overlap for me), my first Common Red Soldier beetle of the year, Dartford Warblers including probable young in dense vegetation near the sea I’d not seen these here before, Whitethroat a key bird here, Guillemots and Razorbills on the sea and flying, Shag, Kestrels seen very well too, Skylark and Dunnock seen and heard, Goldfinch, Swift, Great Black-backed Gull, Painted Lady, stunning Hummingbird hawk-moth I’m doing well for these this year, Silver Y, my first ever Large Yellow Underwing moth, Emperor dragonfly, bees, Common Field Grasshopper and Chiffchaff and Blackcap heard. Grey Heron on the way back and young Starlings, Magpie and Woodpigeon on a plant pot were highlights at home today. Other great flowers to see at Durlston were as I often do on this trip my first red bartsia of the year, flax, thistle including musk thistle, bee and pyramidal orchid seen well again, restharrow, bindweed, agrimony, oxeye daisy, mallow, lady’s bedstraw and cinquefoil. 

#durlston #lulworth skipper #peregrine #peregrine falcon #stonechat #woodpigeon #whitethroat #england #dorset #earth #flowers #knapweed #red bartsia #uk #happy #swift #great black-backed gull #meadow brown #six-spot burnet #gatekeeper #small skipper #goldfinch #blackcap #carrot #birdwatching #europe #outdoors #world #common red soldier beetle #2023

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 24 November 2022

This clump forming herbaceous perennial is probably Centaurea macrocephala (giant knapweed) which has fine yellow petals surrounded by shining brown papery scales. In the warm, wet autumn weather the seeds are germinating in the damp seed-heads.

Jill Raggett

#centaurea #giantknapweed #seedheads #germinatingseed #herbaceous #perennial #seedlings #marengogarden #communitygarden #orkney #plants #gardens #horticulture #garden #writtledesign

[sigalrm]

Centaurea jacea by Pascal Volk

#Centaurea jacea #Wiesen-Flockenblume #brown knapweed #brownray knapweed #Cártamo silvestre #Lila #Violett #Purple #Macro #Makro #100mm #Close up #Nahaufnahme #Macro Dreams #bokeh #DoF #depth of field #Natur #nature #naturaleza #Pflanze #plant #planta #Blume #Flower #flor #Blüte #blossom #bloom #floral

[natureinsight]

Centaurea jacea, ahdekaunokki

#brown knapweed #perennial #asteraceae #original photography #photographers on tumblr