Nature's Velcro
Winter bouquet
I enjoyed this patch of Burdock that grew and flowered last summer by the millpond, and a few of our local hummingbirds were happy to share the pleasure with me. The flowers and the birds, of course, are long gone, but the Burdock seed heads, now bold against a backdrop of snow, remain as a reminder of warmer times. The little hooks, more properly known as bracts, that crown the seed containers are, according to lore, the impetus for the creation of Velcro; they're certainly the impetus for cursing throughout the fall when a photographer accidentally brushes against a patch of Burdock and becomes an inadvertent disperser of the next biennial generation of Arctium plants.
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