Elegant Tresses. Sanguisorba minor, Burnet, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
The fields and pastures of the nature reserve, the Océ-weerd, on the right bank of the Meuse River just north of Venlo, this weekend glowed purple and blue and yellow and white. Large swathes of purpling blue Salvia pratensis, Meadow Clary; the bordeaux reds of Sanguisorba minor, Brunet; the whites of Daisies and the grays of Dandelion seed puffs mingling with new Buttercups. All in the Spring Green Grass.
Here's Burnet with her elegant tresses. Great Carolus Linnaeus still used the name Poterium sanguisorba in 1753. Soon afterwards Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) - indeed, he after whom scopolamine, a some-time Truth Serum, was named - noted a number of anomalies in that naming. His suggestion of the new name 'Sanguisorba minor' (1772) has survived scientific scrutiny down to our own times.
Elegant Tresses. Sanguisorba minor, Burnet, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
The fields and pastures of the nature reserve, the Océ-weerd, on the right bank of the Meuse River just north of Venlo, this weekend glowed purple and blue and yellow and white. Large swathes of purpling blue Salvia pratensis, Meadow Clary; the bordeaux reds of Sanguisorba minor, Brunet; the whites of Daisies and the grays of Dandelion seed puffs mingling with new Buttercups. All in the Spring Green Grass.
Here's Burnet with her elegant tresses. Great Carolus Linnaeus still used the name Poterium sanguisorba in 1753. Soon afterwards Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) - indeed, he after whom scopolamine, a some-time Truth Serum, was named - noted a number of anomalies in that naming. His suggestion of the new name 'Sanguisorba minor' (1772) has survived scientific scrutiny down to our own times.