Saturday
Nov222014
Dog's Mercury

Dog's mercury, Mercurialis perennis.
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-03-29.
Dog's mercury, Mercurialis perennis.
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-03-29.
From 4 years ago: flowers of white dead-nettle, Lamium album.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-05-26.
From back in mid-summer: flowers of tufted vetch, Vicia cracca. When fertilised the flowers develop into seed pods:
Later in the year the pods dry and turn black and the slightest touch causes them burst open, scattering their seeds.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-20.