A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Family Caryophyllaceae Common perennial native to Europe and western Asia have pink flowers with ragged petals, grows up to 1 m
moist, shady area along the water
Spotted on Jun 15, 2013
Submitted on Jul 2, 2013
7 Comments
Brilliant! who would have thought it?
And have more: the whole plant contains saponins, the root of ragged robin was used for dress and hair washing as a soap...
Thats really interesting Jopy, I didnt know that!
Thanks, Daniele :)
I also just saw some of those this morning! Lovely Jopy.
yes, indeed, they are pretty, now I read that genus Lychnos is named by the greek "lychnos" which means "light" because leaves were in ancient times served as a wick for lamps! And maybe they are so named because of the beauty of flowers :)
I always like how raggedy but pretty these are! we have them here too, near moist areas like yours :-)