Blotched. Persicaria maculosa, Lady's Thumb, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
About two-thirds of the Persicaria maculosa plants along my Meuse walk have those dark blotches more or less midway their foliage. It's from those that it gets its English common but imaginative name 'Lady's Thumb'`. Much nicer than the Dutch common 'Perzikkruid' (=Peach-herb), after the shape of its foliage. It's as if a Lady's come along to pick a bunch of wildflowers and left her thumb squeeze on the delicate foliage.
I don't know what purpose that pigmentation serves. Anyone out there in Flickrland?
Blotched. Persicaria maculosa, Lady's Thumb, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
About two-thirds of the Persicaria maculosa plants along my Meuse walk have those dark blotches more or less midway their foliage. It's from those that it gets its English common but imaginative name 'Lady's Thumb'`. Much nicer than the Dutch common 'Perzikkruid' (=Peach-herb), after the shape of its foliage. It's as if a Lady's come along to pick a bunch of wildflowers and left her thumb squeeze on the delicate foliage.
I don't know what purpose that pigmentation serves. Anyone out there in Flickrland?