Posts Tagged "wild carrot"

Queen Anne’s Lace: Carrots and Butterflies

Posted by on Feb 7, 2013 in edible, insects, plant parts, Unmowed Blog, wildlife | 3 comments

No, the train isn’t barrelling down the track here. The weeds growing up through the railroad tracks and under the wheels show how many months or even years it’s been since this train went anywhere. Railroad tracks are interesting little habitats. They cut, straight as an arrow, through cities, meadows, forests, mountains. Back in the days when people first built railroads all across the country, the rail embankments were the first road for plants to travel. Dozens, even hundreds of species of plants moved along the tracks–not puffing along at sixty miles an hour like the...

Read More