Quaking Grass

In May, grasses flower everywhere. The stamens flutter in the wind like little flags. Here is the Quaking Grass (Briza media).

Nottingham Catchfly

In a grassy spot on a woody roadside those elegant little flowers grow. They are Nottingham Catchfly (Silene nutans). Here they are pink.

Normally they are white, but quite often you find pink, or even wine-red flowers, as you see here below. A mixture of tender colours on slender stalks.


 

In daytime the flowers look wilted. That is because Nottingham Catchfly flowers at night, in the morning the petals fold back and curl.

The sun rises, we are going to sleep...