April 8, 2018

Greater Stitchwort



To begin with there were only those long leaves that look so much like grass blades, each with its own dewdrop.





But that was a month ago. Now the Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) is flowering.






It is never alone, when there is one flower it is accompanied by a hundred others. This perennial plant lives in groups, it embellishes roadsides and edges of woods or grasslands with large amounts of white flowers.






Everyone of the five petals is deeply divided and has two lobes, there are ten yellow stamina and three pistils, and in every flower it is exactly the same. Who says that flowers can't count?





Transparancy and soft focus... for the time being, in a few weeks the flowering is over and Greater Stitchwort is making fruits, and then it disappears until next year.