Settle Wildflowers - Day 5 - Pink

Flowers on our exercise walks round Settle and Craven. 

(Also see index) 

Here are two wildflowers that lots of people have noticed and pointed out to me recently:  including beside riverside footpaths.
And a third flower that you may not have noticed  has bloomed overhead


On the ground: Butterbur and Lady's Smock.

Butterbur is a member of the daisy / dandelion family.  That means that the heads are made up of lots of tiny flowers. From a distance it may look a little like a hyacinth in structure but close examination of the "flowers" show that they are made up of scores of tiny flowers each with 5 petal tips. 

The flowers come out before the leaves- but the flowers are now turning to fruit and the leaves are shooting up, and will become as big a rhubarb leaves.

It grows on riverside banks and roadsides



Lady's Smock has many other names, according to which part of the country you live: Milkmaids; Cuckooflower, Mayflower.  It is a member of the cress family and has four petals.

Ash flowers - end of March -First the two pronged stigmas show (above) 

Then on April below the stalks bearing the dark maroon anthers elongate and the anthers open and shed the pollen.



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