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One of the most common spring wildflowers in eastern North America and is widely distributed on the North American continent. It occurs in all provinces in the southern half of Canada and all states in the northeastern US, south to Georgia and Tennessee, and in the west coast states south to California. Starflower is listed as Endangered in Georgia and Kentucky, and Threatened in Illinois and Tennessee.
It is one of the few flowers that typically has seven petals, though petal number can vary from five to ten.
Starflowers are shade-tolerant, with a preference for light shade or dappled sunlight. In terms of habitat, Starflower is relatively flexible, growing in hardwood forests, mixed wood forests, and wetland habitat, in all elevation zones up to (but not including) alpine.
The small white flowers are quite pretty and very photogenic.
Also known as a Starflower is a beautiful flowering herb plant that grows in the Mediterranean cultivated and used widely throughout Europe for its healing properties and for a nice addition to salad.
Borage is also known as the Bee plant and Bee Bread, because the blue purplish star shaped flower attracts Bees all summer long.
Algarve April 2016
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 50mm F2.8 / Full Frame Sensor / Darktable.
Some lovely colour in the middle of some wasteland. Just a pity I couldn't get them from a better angle as they're such pretty flowers.
Better viewed large.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Laowa 60mm F2.8 Macro 2:1 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
Borage, also known as star starflower.
In Belgium, in the month of May, there's an action that activates not to mow your lawn, to give some extra chances to bees, bumblebees and butterflies. One of the resuts was this nice guest in our garden...
From the Washington Trails Association:
A nice creekside hike within the Olympics with an option to check out Marymere Falls. This hike has all types of old growth and lush vegetation.
Most hikers follow Barnes Creek towards Lake Crescent Lodge, but at the junction you will turn left to follow the creek. Soon enough you will come to another junction where you have the option to check out the heavily visited Marymere Falls. This is a popular portion of the trail where most people will be heading. Take a right to stop and check it out if you are interested, otherwise continue onward for Barnes Creek.
Continuing onward, the trail has a much different feeling, as it quickly becomes less crowded.
The trail rolls mostly up and rarely down over the next 5.5 miles. Despite being unmaintained, it is in relatively good condition.
The trail fords four creeks and numerous seeps. While the first is unnamed, the following three creeks are Lizard Head Creek, Happy Lake Creek, and Barnes Creek. The mossy trail winds its way through old growth Douglas fir and western hemlock forests. Younger stands show evidence of the valley's fire history.
In spring, watch out for bunchberry blooms and starflowers peppering the mossy forest floor. In summer, pipsissewa bloom profusely next to wild huckleberries and blueberries. In the fall, creekside vine maples paint ochre hues into the verdant landscape.
For those wishing to camp, potential sites are just below the start of this trail at Dismal Draw, 3.5 miles up lower Barnes Creek and next to Happy Lake Creek, 2.9 miles past the Aurora Divide intersection.
After 5.2 miles and 3300 feet of climbing, the trail peters out in a dark stand of stunted western hemlock on the ridge top. Just before reaching this terminus, the trail forks, leading steeply up to the left. Take this trail another half mile up to the top of Lookout Dome.
The trail winds around the backside and up to the top of the dome, where the intrepid hiker can enjoy cliffside views of the Hughes Creek valley sprawling below. Baldy Ridge extends rocky and cliff-faced to the North, the Elwha River meanders far below, and behind, to the West, one can see the Barnes Creek watershed draining down toward a glimpse of Lake Crescent through the trees.
It's possible to day hike this trail from Storm King Ranger station to the top and back but, at around 20 miles round trip, this trail is much more doable as an overnight backpacking trip.
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Laowa 60mm F2.8 2:1 Macro / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Rodenstock XR-Heligon 75mm F1.1 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straigth from camera).
This is a slide of the Pentas Lanceolata, otherwise known as a starflower...the name of which inspired this "star" slide!
Happy Slider Sunday!
on 21 december 2025 I found this plant blooming!!!
Bernagie (Borago officinalis), ook vaak komkommerkruid genoemd
Ammerstol - Krimpenerwaard (NL)
L: Borago officinalis / Echium amoenum)
NL: Boragie
D: Borretsch-Pflanze
F: Bourrache officinale
E: Starflower
Danish: Hjulkrone
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My Flickr stream photos best to see on Fluidr
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AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Laowa 60mm F2.8 Macro 2:1 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 35mm F2.8 TS / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
Borage, also known as a "starflower", is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region, and has naturalized in many other locales.
It grows satisfactorily in gardens in most of Europe, such as Denmark, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe.
The plant is also commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds.
The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scabiosa stellata is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name starflower pincushions. (Formerly it had been placed in the teasel family.) It is native to southwestern Europe and North Africa, and it is known widely as an ornamental plant. The inflorescence is a dense spherical cluster of flowers that yield showy fruits with fan-like funnel-shaped papery bracts.
Our patio has a shady flower garden that sometimes loses flowers we planted. In this case this cluster of flowers came up with no help from us. Maybe it had some help from wind, birds or squirrels. We were delighted to have it join the crocus, and daffodils that are blooming now.
Red Postman on Egyptian Starflower at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI
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Anyone else excited for spring?
I love winter but I am excited to get back in the garden!
Borage flowers from seed I planted back in 2020, hoping I get some more this year!
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Laowa 60mm F2.8 Macro 2:1 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Rodenstock-Kinemar 100mm F1.5 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
40 focus point in camera stack.
Borage (Borago officinalis), also known as starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae native to the Mediterranean region. Although the plant contains small amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some parts are edible and its seeds provide oil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borage
Whilst in Broadstairs I always give Daphne, my Mother-in-laws garden a clean-up, not that much needs doing. A little bit of deadheading here and weeding there as every border is overflowing with flowers, Penstemon, Salvia, Borage and Agapanthus at this time of the year and with a cornucopia of flowers comes wildlife, Bees, Butterflies and beetles......
Ornithogalum is a genus of perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa belonging to the family Asparagaceae. Some species are native to other areas such as the Caucasus. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Ornithogalum
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Order: Asparagales
Rank: Genus
Higher classification: Ornithogaleae