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Saturday
Jul212012

Valerian

Flowers of common valerian, Valeriana officinalis.  A sickly sweet smell but very attractive to hoverflies, wasps, bees and Conopid flies.

The leaves look like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-06-19.

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