White Lace Flower

Early morning in summer, a light fog.

Times ago local farmers grew tobacco in this field, but it has been abandoned for many years. Since then some woody plants had time enough to grow big, like those Junipers  (Juniperus communis). Between the Junipers wild flowers found a good spot and they flower in abundance. Unusual amounts of them grow here, purple Creeping Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys), yellow Jenny's Sronecrop (Sedum rupestre) and White Lace Flower (Orlaya grandiflora).

For the White Lace Flower 2014 has been a very good year. Now the flowering season is nearly over and little fruits covered with little hooks can be found in every spot where a month ago the plants were in full bloom.

Here and there a single umbel in flower can still be seen.

Common Andryala

In this cereal field grow many wild flowers.

In this corner the orange poppies jump to the eye, and also a mass of yellow flower heads. Two plants that like ruderalized spots, like this field that has been laboured but that has not been tidied up since.

The plant with yellow flowers is the Common Andryala (Andryala integrifolia). It flowers through summer with many lemon-coloured flower heads.

Stalks and leaves are covered with felt-like hairs.

Single Yellow-head

Normally it is not a single flowerhead you find where the Single Yellow-head (Inula montana) grows. It is a quite conspicuous plant with its luminous yellow flowers.

Even this year, when the grass in the calcareous meadows that are its favourite spot, has grown quite high and dense.

Its stems and leaves are covered in grey hairs that give them a velvety look.