Sunday, 7 June 2020

Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon

Goatsbeard is also known as Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon because the flowers close up about lunch time.  So if you want to see them you have to go in the morning

Photo: Alan Watts

The next day they re-appear as a seedhead like a giant dandelion clock - or a goat's beard, maybe?



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