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Scout Scar and Helsington Barrows: July flora

17/7/2020

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PictureYarrow, Achillea Millefolium, Milfoil
 Rain,  pervasive light rain and the fells are gone.
 A rabbit.  A linnet in an ash tree.  Swifts silent in cloudy skies.  A raven croaks.   Jackdaws call. 
On Helsington Barrows there's betony, thyme and self-heal, a raindrop palette of purples.  And fragrant lady's bedstraw.   Yellow flowers of hawkweed close against the rain. The elliptical leaves of mouse-ear hawkweed  pale and mouse soft,  mouse-ear hawkweed,  Hieracium pilosella.   The tiny petals of fairy-flax close tight to a fleck of whiteness. 
A morning of close-ups since the fells are lost in rain-cloud,  butterflies are sheltering from the rain.  The lush green of mid-July after rains, after drought. 

Dark red helleborine is past its best,  colour fading.  The plants will gradually die back into the limestone clitter.  Herb Robert has a longer flowering season, leaves rosy from the preceding drought.
Yarrow, Milfoil,  Achillea Millefolium-  of feathery green leaves.   A beautiful flower-head.  Pin-points of white pattern as the buds appear.   Easy to be confused by flowers at different stages of their development. Field-guides tend to conform in what they show.  
Fruit bodies of larch boletus appear,  a glimpse of the world-wide web, the mycelium of threads spreading out and following the roots of the tree.   The cap a pale chestnut, the pores lemon.  A warm and rainy morning, perfect for fungi. 
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