Inachis io, the peacock butterfly. One of the most beautiful butterflies in Europe. A rare sight where I live although it is not an endangered species.
Then we have probably a specimen of the family Satyridae, maybe Maiola jurtina the meadow brown butterfly.
But I will be damned if I know what that white aster-like plant is.
mordredsays
@Charly: Yeah the Tagpfauenauge (Day-Peacock-Eye) is truly beautiful. I got a big print of one of my photos of one hanging in the hallway.
Whatever that aster like plant is, it’s growing like weed all over my garden ;-)
I got good news:
I found it. It’s Erigeron annus, in German “Berufkraut”.
It’s also edible.
Had a friend over for a barbecue today and she went through the garden going “oh, you got this. And that. And this is edible.”
Very handy.
Thanks for the info, it was bugging me. It is a relatively recent import from America, it is not in my books, so it is no wonder I was unable to identify it.
Yeah, turns out many of my pretty flowers are actually American neophytes, some of them problematic as well.
mordredsays
Thanks for identifying the pretty flower for me! And another food source too! After I recently realized the stuff invading my herb patch is actually Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria) and rather tasty I wonder why I bother to plant anything at all ;-)
I love how there are objects of interest at every focus level.
Pretty!
Inachis io, the peacock butterfly. One of the most beautiful butterflies in Europe. A rare sight where I live although it is not an endangered species.
Then we have probably a specimen of the family Satyridae, maybe Maiola jurtina the meadow brown butterfly.
But I will be damned if I know what that white aster-like plant is.
@Charly: Yeah the Tagpfauenauge (Day-Peacock-Eye) is truly beautiful. I got a big print of one of my photos of one hanging in the hallway.
Whatever that aster like plant is, it’s growing like weed all over my garden ;-)
I got good news:
I found it. It’s Erigeron annus, in German “Berufkraut”.
It’s also edible.
Had a friend over for a barbecue today and she went through the garden going “oh, you got this. And that. And this is edible.”
Very handy.
Thanks for the info, it was bugging me. It is a relatively recent import from America, it is not in my books, so it is no wonder I was unable to identify it.
Yeah, turns out many of my pretty flowers are actually American neophytes, some of them problematic as well.
Thanks for identifying the pretty flower for me! And another food source too! After I recently realized the stuff invading my herb patch is actually Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria) and rather tasty I wonder why I bother to plant anything at all ;-)