AT LAST, A RAINY DAY
WILD RASPBERRY FLOWERS
WHITE-FLOWERED CROW'S FOOT
YELLOW FLOWERED CROW'S FOOTFriday, 6:30 AM. 56 degrees, wind W, calm. The sky is completely overcast and it is raining hard. There is already .5” or rain in the gage and the barometer predicts more. Finally, we are getting significant rain.
There are a number of Ranunculus species (the buttercups, or crow's foots) along our roadsides, most of them yellow flowered. The family’s distinguishing characteristics are yellow or sometimes white, waxy five-petalled flowers and deeply lobed or parted leaves which resemble the fingers of a hand, or a crow’s foot. They are a confusing lot and I won’t try to identify them specifically,
Another confusing genus is Rubus, which comprises the raspberries and blackberries. Some, such as those pictured, have rather significant flowers as well as edible fruits.
The Paul’s Scarlet hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna ‘Paul’s Scarlet’, is an old variety of English hawthorn which is quite beautiful in flower. It is usually highly susceptible to fire blight and seldom gown anymore. The one pictured is in a little park on Sixth Street, and seems to be resstant to the disease.
The rain is drumming on the skylight, and I hope it will continue all day.
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