MAUVE AND PURPLE BUTTERFLY FOOD

Creeping Thistle                                  Spear Thistle

As well as thistles, which we can all recognise, here are two flowers much-loved by butterflies at Filnore Woods:

First the pale mauve Field Scabious  

and then the more intensely coloured Greater Knapweed.

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And from my garden, a small tortoiseshell feeding on some Verbena bonariensis.