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Clock-flower

11th June 2016 By Robin Boag

Like people, plants sometimes get a mixed press. Viewed as a scourge of many a manicured lawn and libelled a ‘weed’, the dandelion is a prime example.

But the genus Taraxacum will be here long after we’ve left nature’s stage; the many names attesting to its tenacity and versatility – ‘Blowball’, ‘Cankerwort’, Witch’s Gowan’, ‘Peasant’s Clock’, ‘Wet-a-bed’, ‘Swine’s Snout’, ‘Monk’s Head’.  Its members are generous to us; they nourish, refresh, heal and entrance. Which of us summer’s children do not remember clasping a rubbery stem and puffing mightily to see the plumed seeds detach – airy buccaneers.

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