#skullcaps

[loveydoveychallah]

Various caps from the Jewish Museum

Poland (1850) | Amsterdam, Netherlands (2000) | Poland (19th century) Bîrlad, Romania (1863) | Ottoman Empire (19th century) | Bîrlad, Romania (1863) Amsterdam, Netherlands (1997) | Uzbekistan (early 20th century) | Jerusalem (early 20th century)

[gaolerdeathmetal]

it begin's

[dragoneggs]

sketch of my mossy gravekeeper

[tea-the-not-understanding]

5 more days..

also

Morning walk @roseofdarkness0

[vandaliatraveler]

Yet more gifts of Appalachian summer.

I've been on a mission to catalogue as many of Central Appalachia's summer wildflowers and berries as possible for an online project I'm starting up. Above is the haul from yesterday, including the stunning orange-fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), a grand summer orchid of Appalachia's wet seeps and meadows. Downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), another of our summer-blooming orchids, may not be quite as showy, but its intricately-patterned leaves are quite striking. Turk's-cap lily (Lilium superbum) is also in bloom in our local wet meadows and swamps. It's distinguished from its close cousin Canada lily by more strongly recurved petals and a green, star-like pattern in the center of its flowers. A single Turk's cap lily can produce dozens of flowers from its rangy stems. At home in moist woodland edges and streambanks, summer phlox (Phlox paniculata), sometimes also referred to as fall phlox and garden phlox, produces loads of gorgeous pink or white flowers from mid-July through September. Because this phlox is commonly planted in gardens nowadays, it's hard to know if plants in the wild are true natives or escapees.

[pumpkinraventrick]

It's been a while since I last drew my night furies, Juniper and Skullcap! He's so excited to be getting a smooch from the cutest girl around!!

[faguscarolinensis]

Scutellaria montana / Largeflower Skullcap at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[uo6ep]

and we got older

[morethansalad]

Tart Cherry Sleepy Girl Mocktail (Vegan)

[draxomoriatic]

Been a bit since I’ve shown my cookie run ocs, so here’s a new one! Their name is Skullcap Cookie, and they’re the gravekeeper for the Dessert Kingdom, as well as the primary caretaker of its Memorial Gardens.

They love both life and death, constantly fascinated by everything it entails. They could easily talk about specific blooming times of cold weather flowers and then switch to which parts of a cookie decay faster than the rest.

[loveydoveychallah]

Various caps from the Jewish Museum

United States (2000) | Connecticut, United States (2001, 2012) | United States (2000) San Marcos La Laguna or Santiago, Guatemala (2014 | San Marcos La Laguna or Santiago, Guatemala (2014) | San Marcos La Laguna or Santiago, Guatemala (2014) New York, United States (1994-95) | Tel Aviv, Israel (2009, produced 2012) | United States (2014)

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

I just don't feel in balance unless I'm grounded and channeling the four directions.

Ocmulgee Skullcap (Scutellaria ocmulgee) Georgia and South Carolina, USA Status: Endangered

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This wildflower was added to the US's endangered species list in 2024.

[cursed-anduknowit]

DRAKEN

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

“My religious trauma isn’t that bad.”

Bro you got into acting which is something you’ve always wanted to get into; but you‘ve been on the verge of throwing up and shitting yourself for the past twelve hours because you held one (1) prop gun for maybe fifteen minutes and now you’re spiraling because you’re worried about losing your purity because violent movies are Evil and Satanic (even though you watch them literally all the time and write graphic whump).

[tea-the-not-understanding]

Finally finished his reference and yes, you guess it right, this is Shadow milk cookie in my au version thingy. And I want to give him a new name, any of y'all can come up with a funny name for this lil man?

Edit : He got a name now!! His name is Skullcap Sapphire Butter Cookie

[vandaliatraveler]

I snuck in a late spring hike in Cheat River Canyon yesterday, before the dreaded heat dome builds in early next week. Between Brazil's Pantanal going up in flames and the massive heat spikes in North America and elsewhere, I wonder what will be left of this planet's beautiful wild places in twenty to thirty years. For now, I celebrate and cherish every day the glorious diversity of living things that nature has gifted us. This includes the magnificent poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata), a shade tolerant member of the dogbane family, which feeds and hosts a great many of those living things, such as the extraordinary Himmelman's plume moth (Geina tenuidactylus). Or the comical-looking rock harlequin (Corydalis sempervirens), which clings to the rocky outcrops of the canyon. And the exquisite downy skullcap (Scutellaria incana), a gregarious summer mint that associates with wild bergamot and tall thimbleweed at forest edges. And how about the peculiar dangling flowers of Indian cucumber (Medeola virginiana) or the pale, ghostly stems and bracts of the parasitic Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), just now emerging from the forest floor? In a couple of weeks, the rhododendron bloom will start in the canyon and summer will be in full swing.