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This is common self heal and it’s a small plant, not much taller than the grass and it usually grows in clumps. This poor fellow was all alone, and I probably would have missed it except Jack decided to poop beside it. Thanks buddy.
Very nice picture of a very small plant. I have them in garden, where I have to say I do not appreciate them much. They are a weed and a pain in the backside.
The plant looks quite alien even if it’s a common little plant. Here it’s called niittyhumala (meadow hop, even though it isn’t closely related to hop, the bitter spice used in beer (humala in Finnish).
Oh, it’s very pretty. Don’t have anything like this either. I’d rather have that then the bindweed all over.
It’s certainly pretty in the grass, I like it for the colour, but it seems its tendency to be a weed is balanced against its usefulness in herbal medicine (edible! bonus!). It’s called parastā brūngalvīte (‘common little brown head/top’) here, which… is a very imaginative name?
I have learnt not to walk bare foot where it is growing in grass, bees love it, and don’t appreciate being trodden on.
Beautiful close up, but for some reason it made me think of the broomrape currently infesting my garden. It is not that similar though, I must be traumatized. I’d take all the weeds in the world over that damn broomrape.
Somehow, I associate the end with the mouth a shai-hulud (the sandworm in Arrakis, in Dune).
Ice Swimmer I can see that now you’ve said it.