Monday
Aug182014
Musk Mallow

Flowers of musk mallow, Malva moschata.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-06.
Flowers of musk mallow, Malva moschata.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-06.
Amphibious bistort, Persicaria amphibia, growing in long grass.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-20.
A flower of purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria.
The full plants look like this:
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-08-09.
A Rhododendron flower head from four years ago: probably a Rhodendron ponticum hydrid.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-05-31.
Flower heads of spiny sow-thistle, Sonchus asper.
It is the leaves that are spiny:
A view of the whole plant:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-07.