Midsummer is almost upon us and the recent heat and rain has caused the margins to erupt. The bees and other pollinators are having a literal field day.
Here is Common Knapweed, untidy, yes, but more than valuable enough to earn its place betwixt path and Forest.
Knap- is related to knob or button, the shape of the flower head. In Cribbage, a fine old English pub card game played since the seventeenth century, you score a point for the knave’s hat. An ancestor game, Noddy, was known to Shakespeare.