June 21, 2016

Spotted Rockrose


Some cyclopic objects look at us.






They are petals fallen from a Spotted Rockrose (Tuberaria guttata).

It is a transient flowering. You can look for Spotted Rockrose and not find it, and yet a week later it is there in multitude.





Its favorite habitat is sandy and subnny and not on limestone soil. Here, in a poor meadow after haymaking it grows abundantly.