The English name, Viper's Bugloss, is much more interesting. I have no idea of the etymology.
> On 19 June 2018 at 22:07 Henk Terhell <hterh...@chello.nl> wrote: > > > Thanks Dan and Ann. > The blue flowers with the poppy in the third pic is Echium vulgare or > blueweed according Wikipedia. These are here quite abundant as well at > present and the bees like them. > > Henk > > Op 2018-06-19 om 22:51 schreef ann sanfedele: > > Henk, > > enjoyed the whole gallery so much -- the orchids are nice , but a > > number of others really talked to me more.. and I dont see thatyou had > > shared those with PDML before. > > These: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42102765704/in/photostream/ > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/41915613115/in/photostream/ > > > > and this one > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42777152291/in/photostream/ > > a lonely orange bloom among the purple stalks - which look to me to be > > a poppy and pentstamon- > > > > ann > > > > On 6/19/2018 4:35 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: > >> It looks like we had a good year for this type of wild orchid as I've > >> seen here so many in the wet fields in our dunes: > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/29033030688/in/photostream/ > >> > >> Henk -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
