Pink Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Ontario fields are beginning to turn shades of pink and mauve with flowering Dame's Roket.
Mauve Dame's Rocket
In some places Dame's Rocket is considered an invasive weed, but along the roadsides it's very pretty nonetheless.
White Dame's Rocket
35 comments:
What a name! :-)
Wonder where it got its name
Funny to be called a dame
When it is just a flower.
Still, in all, it's very pretty
Like a fragile woman
And that perhaps is its claim to fame!
Ah yes, mine are out in my jungle-like back corner.
And this is why I come here beautiful photos and finding out what is growing in my back yard. Thank you. Hug B
And this is why I come here beautiful photos and finding out what is growing in my back yard. Thank you. Hug B
I don't think I have seen this before...
They are so pretty and delicate!
I rather like the look of them
The flower is probably saved by its beauty!
So many weeds even invasive ones can be so pretty. MB
It's a beauty. So called weeds... well, yes, they can be a problem when spreading - but it doesn't stop them being admired by some ;D)
I'll take that as an invasive weed over the scotch broom we have here any day!
I wouldn't mind it invading. :)
Very pretty!
Looks to lovely to be considered a weed. Must be pretty along the roadside.
Darla
Very pretty flowers! Nice shots.
You sure know your plant names.
Maybe the prettiest weed ever ?! Those clusters remind me of a geranium's.
Ours is in bloom now too , and it is so beautiful this year.
Your photographs are wonderful!
pretty little 4-petal bloom!
They are all so beautiful!
I didn't know what they were called! Great shots of these beauties!
Beautiful captures,
Now I have a name for them!
What a name for these pretties!
They are pretty but I don't know if I've seen it here. I'll keep my eyes open.
I'd rather have an invasive flower growing on the roadsides than just grass. I think they're lovely and I'll bet a whole field of them is stunning.
Very pretty little flowers!
wow ! Pretty flowers and colors !
Oh so pretty each of them!
Dame's Rocket..... I must remember that. I never knew it's name but I've seen it everywhere, very pretty.
Pretty flowers!
Dame's Rocket . . . it looks like a plant that I should know, but frankly I am drawing a complete blank. Still, it looks pretty.
Odd name for such a beautiful plant.
I like the mauve one, although it looks more like magenta than mauve to me…
;)
For a weed, it's awfully pretty!
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