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White umbrels on the herb sweet cicely with a blurred natural foliage background

A closeup of a fly perched on white flowers in sunlight

Longan (Dimocarpus longan) flower. The tropical fruit native to south Asia.

Bee beetles (Tricius fasciatus) on on Umbelliferae flowers.

$Deschampsia flexuosa, commonly known as wavy hair-grass, is a species of bunchgrass in the grass family widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, South America, and North America.\nDescription:\nWavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, has wiry leaves and delicate, shaking panicles formed of silvery or purplish-brown flower heads on wavy, hair-like stalks. The leaves are bunched in tight tufts with plants forming a very tussocky, low sward 5 to 20 cm tall before flowering, to 30 cm high.\nDistribution and habitat:\nDeschampsia flexuosa is found naturally in dry grasslands and on moors and heaths. \nIt is also an important component of the ground flora of birch and oak woodland. \nThe plant has a preference for acidic, free-draining soil, and avoids chalk and limestone areas. It can exist over 1,200 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis is a common Grass Species on the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

A close-up of a Dagger fly, Empis livida, feeding on Cow parsley. The insect has lots of details and its sword like proboscis is fully extended. Close-up and well focussed against a dark green background.

Mint blossom flowers in a lush foliage and a hoverfly collecting nectar

Valeriana officinalis - Real valerian. Common name, Valerian.

A close-up shot of red beetles on seseli white flowers

The red or maroon flowers of sheep's sorrel (Rumex acetosella) makes a pleasant splash of colour amidst the green of short grassland (here, on Mitcham Common in Surrey, England). Originating in Eurasia, sheep's sorrel is now a common weed in North America. It favours moist, acidic soil, thriving on floodplains and near marshes – a fair description of its location in this photograph. It has uses in traditional medicine but contains oxalates, which (on accumulation) are poisonous.

$Medium to tall, rather bristly biennial; stem erect, purple or purple spotted. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, dark green, but eventually turning purple; leaflets oval, toothed. Flowers white, 2mm, in compound umbels which are nodding in bud, the petals hairless; bracts usually absent, bracteoles hairy. Fruit oblong, tapered towards the apex, 4-7mm, often purple.\nHabitat: Rough grassland, semi shaded places, on well drained soils, generally in low attitudes.\nFlowering Season: May-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe; absent from the Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.\n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.\nToxicity:\nChaerophyllum temulum contains (mainly in the upper parts and fruits) a volatile alkaloid chaerophylline, as well as other (probably glycosidally bound) toxins, the chemistry and pharmacology of which has, as yet, been but little studied. Externally, the sap of the plant can cause inflammation of the skin and persistent rashes. If consumed, the plant causes gastro-intestinal inflammation, drowsiness, vertigo and cardiac weakness. Human poisonings have seldom been observed, because the plant lacks aromatic essential oils that could lead to its being confused with edible umbellifers used to flavour food. It is, however, used occasionally in folk medicine. Animal poisonings by the plant are commoner than those of humans, pigs and cattle thus intoxicated exhibiting a staggering gait, unsteady stance, apathy and severe, exhausting colic, ending sometimes in death. \nHerbal medicine:\nChaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose (source Wikipedia).$

Just a wild carrot growing in Delta Park near Burlington, Vermont on the Burlington & Colchester Trail

Closeup on a female of the rare black mining bee, Andrena pilipes drinking nectar

The flowers of meadowsweet or filipendula ulmaria

Queen Anne's Lace, Daucus carota (Family Apiaceae) with an insect resting on the lower part of the flower, and facing viewer

Red beetles are sitting on the white flower. The texture of natural wildflowers on which beetles breed.

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