Every flowering plant has a time when its flowers are at their maximum. On this day, it was Goutweed.
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
Goutweed is a native of Europe, widely grown as a foliage plant or groundcover and readily escaping forming colonies near homesites, along roadsides, on banks and at the borders of forests.
Goutweed has a long history as a medicinal herb to treat gout and arthritis, applied in hot wraps externally upon boiling both leaves and roots together.
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
As I walked about near the Don River, south of Eglinton, there were scores of flowers to be seen. Here are a few of them:
Ah, happy day, refuse to go! Hang in the heavens forever so! Forever in midafternoon, Ah, happy day of happy June! – Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921)
Chicory was my favourite in this post. I am amazed that quite a few of the flower petals you have posted in the last week have those ‘ little seesaw ‘ edges!!!
I just love these wild flowers! Thank you so much, Miles–for sharing this favorite place and its treasures.
Chicory was my favourite in this post. I am amazed that quite a few of the flower petals you have posted in the last week have those ‘ little seesaw ‘ edges!!!