#It’s a bladder campion!!!!

[just-a-tiny-goldfish]

Mmmm not for long

[mothmiso]

Mountain Road bridge (2) (3) (4) by ronald embree

[thekidthesuperkid]

What the fuck is this ad. Why so long. Why the gif of somebody's very blurry up-close face. Why.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[geopsych]

Bladder campion, not a native. It is edible, even sought after in some places but I haven’t tried it.

[fadbucker]

rock collecting by basalt cliff (old quarry) in nj, featuring rock with pond in it, two-striped grasshopper, old keys, bladder campion, pretty seeps, old shovel, shushrooms, cool crystals in rocks, cool rocks left by others, old cars.

[tipsy3695kiss]

love a bladder campion

[noir-poetography]

Bladder Campion

© 2023, James Blatter

[47015741]

{Silene vulgaris} bladder campion, an edible wild plant of Mediterranean, young leaves as salad, old ones in a stew.

[mbsposts]

20240705 Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge Wisconsin

Bladder Campion Silene cucubalus

[dromaeosaurid]

More illustration plates from from the Canada Department of Agriculture's Farm Weeds (1906), this time of members of family Caryophyllaceae.

Cow cockle (listed here as Vaccaria vaccaria, Vaccaria vulgaris, or Saponaria vaccaria) seems to be listed in most sources now as Gypsophila vaccaria. Similarly, white cockle/white campion (Lychnis vespertina, Lychnis dioica, Silene pratensis) is now Silene latifolia, purple cockle (Lyychnis githago) is now Agrostemma githago, bladder campion (Silene inflata) is now Silene vulgaris

The genus name Lychnis appears to have been replaced by Silene in many of the (Western, English-language) sources I can access, and according to Wikipedia: "The genus Lychnis is closely related to (and sometimes included in) Silene.[10][11] When treated as a distinct genus, it can often be differentiated by the number of flower styles (five in Lychnis' and three in Silene), the number of teeth of the seed capsule (five in Lychnis' and six in Silene), and by the sticky stems of Lychnis."

[violettesiren]

Look, in the early light, Down to the infinite Depths at the deep grass-roots; Where the sun shoots In golden veins, as looking through A dear pool one sees it do; Where campion drifts Its bladders, iris-brinded, through the rifts Of rising, falling seed That the winds lightly scour— Down to the matted earth where over And over again crow’s-foot and clover And pink bindweed Dimly, steadily flower.

The Depths of the Grass by Michael Field

[mothmiso]

River Phillip, Oxford, NS (2) (3) (4) (5) by ronald embree

[leaveharmony]

Attempting to level up with wildflower and weed identification in the neighbourhood:

Birdfoot trefoil

Black medic

my old friend Pineapple weed

Evening lychinis

Everlasting pea

Bladder campion (I think)

actually fucking Nightshade!

There were a few others I haven't figured out yet but yeah...yeah. I also am pretty sure the mystery six petaled purple fellas from spring were "round-lobed hepatica," but I never remembered to take the camera in time to get pictures of them.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[golden--flowers]

Roadside plant identification where there's no pictures and I just describe them: If you see a plant with a bladder behind the petals and it's kind of coarse and green and there are five white petals, that's white campion. If you see a plant that has tiny white flowers, characteristics of a mustard/cress, but instead of elongated pods has little heart-shaped ones instead, that's a shepherd's purse. Thank you.