Many plants don't feel like flowering now after weeks of very hot and very dry weather. But Round-headed Rampion (Phyteuma orbicularis) took a different decision.
The plants are only tiny this year and not easy to spot on this dry, sunny slope. Notwithstanding their beautiful blue colour they hide themselves rather well.
A little Flower crab-spider choose a flower head as a lookout post for prey. When the photographer comes near, it tries to hide.
Some long and slender leaves at the base of a stalk of net yet twenty centimeters and some smaller ones on it, and this blue. That's all!