Tuesday 3 May 2011

Cow Parsley

Cow parsley flowers, Anthriscus sylvestris, in High Elms Country Park on Easter Monday, 25th April 2011. This umbel is inhabited by some small orange insects.
Cow parsley flowers, Anthriscus sylvestris, in High Elms Country Park on Easter Monday, 25th April 2011.
This umbel is inhabited by some small orange insects.
A mass of cow parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris, in High Elms Country Park on Easter Monday, 25th April 2011. It is a common hedgerow plant in this area.
A mass of cow parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris, in High Elms Country Park on Easter Monday, 25th April 2011.
It is a common hedgerow plant in this area.

2 comments:

  1. Oh, so that's what it's called. We have that, along roads, in fields. And yes, even in southern Louisiana, we do have cows, even dairy cows. Cow parsley is prettier photograhed in detail, as you do it.

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  2. Please excuse me; Wikipedia, et al., say that it is not in our hemisphere, and one of ours, Queen Anne's Lace, is NE USA. so who knows what ours is.

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