Lilliputian Greens. Lamb's Lettuce Valerianella locusta, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
Those are really very small, lilliputian mauve flowers. They're Common Corn Salad or Lamb's Lettuce, with a variety of other names. Down through the centuries used as a salad stuff for commoners and royalty alike. Especially favored by Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688), Potager du roi and director of the kitchen gardens of Louis XIV.
Olymp complained: 'The flowers are too small for me to catch them properly...' But I: 'Do your best!, and he did.
Lilliputian Greens. Lamb's Lettuce Valerianella locusta, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
Those are really very small, lilliputian mauve flowers. They're Common Corn Salad or Lamb's Lettuce, with a variety of other names. Down through the centuries used as a salad stuff for commoners and royalty alike. Especially favored by Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688), Potager du roi and director of the kitchen gardens of Louis XIV.
Olymp complained: 'The flowers are too small for me to catch them properly...' But I: 'Do your best!, and he did.