Unfortunate Blooms

The Photo:

Dalmatian Toadflax, a noxious weed

The Thought:

Lovely snapdragon-like yellow flowers take over fields where we want foraging plants for wildlife and livestock; that makes them a noxious weed. These Dalmatian toadflax are also poisonous to cattle when large quantities are eaten.

Lovely, but unwanted to keep our rangeland healthy.

Two common varieties, both noxious weeds:

Dalmatian Toadflax

Yellow Toadflax 

Poetry

Unfortunate Blooms

Along the road and 

throughout the fields, 

yellow blooms abound;

Lovely they seem

Noxious they be:

they grow and spread

and overtake 

the flora of the land—

the native plants 

the wildlife need,

the livestock’s feed—

the toadflax overwhelms.

Sheri Edwards  

05.22.24   142.365.24

Poetry/Photography

Dalmatian Toadflax

The Story

https://sheri42.net/2024/05/22/unfortunate-blooms/

https://flic.kr/p/2pSQrqJ

Dalmatian Toadflax, a noxious weed with lovely yellow snapdragon-like flowers that can harm wildlife and livestock, overtaking the native plants

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