I can't identify these yellow daisy-like flowers. There are so many that look very similar, and I'm no expert. They grow wild all around us. The blooms are small and clustered. This one is growing right outside our hedge out back.
Summer wildflowers.
The warm weather continues. It's nice, especially when there is a breeze. I mowed the strips outside our hedges yesterday afternoon, but I didn't do more because it was a little too warm, dare I say hot, for me. I prefer to cut the grass in the morning, but it's been wet with heavy dew these past few days. It'll get done eventually.
Whatever the flowers, the photo is beautiful. The never-ending saga of the wet grass. But at least you’ve made progress... and the weather’s nice.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like ragwort. Highly poisonous to horses.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo, Walt It has a 3D-like quality! Macro 50mm? Anyway, this is what I read about ragwart:
ReplyDeleteMyth 1. Ragwort is a serious risk to horses and cattle
Ragwort is mildly poisonous, but the taste of the plant is usually off-putting to livestock. That’s why it's not unusual to see horses in fields chomping on grass but leaving the ragwort – clever things.
The danger comes if ragwort that’s been cut and dried gets mixed up in dry hay fed to livestock. The onus is on owners to ensure dry feed given to horses and cattle is clean and fit to eat – just as with anything else they feed their animals.
There's more on this page: https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/ragwort-poisonous-ragwort-mythbuster
I'm not entirely sure the plant in the picture is ragwort though.
High here is 84 today, we are getting your rain every day lol! Plenty of fungus among us now.
ReplyDeleteAs other commenters said, the Seneçon jacobée is toxic to horses and cattle if eaten in too large a quantity.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it has been warming up -- those tomatoes must be loving it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers. I’m sure your garden is very happy now!
ReplyDeletemitch, accentuate the positive!
ReplyDeletechristina, it does look like ragwort to me, based on what I see in wikipedia. No wonder I don't see any horses or cows out back!
elgee, it's a 100mm macro lens. Thanks for the link!
evelyn, we'll get it back soon enough, I imagine.
chm, yup.
judy, I hope so. We're still battling weeds... and not winning.
bettyann, the zukes are producing and the beans are flowering.