On a logged-over site, still piled with logging slash, muddy-rutted by large machinery treads, carpeted with torn and broken branches, Ma Nature manages to create spots of beauty.
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| Wood groundsel, Senecio sylvaticus. |
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| One of the new plants, getting ready to make a zillion seeds. Next year, the site will be green. |
Scattered to plentiful, occasionally dominant, in non-forested communities on cutover, fire-disturbed, or continuously disturbed sites, where it inhabits exposed mineral soils. (From E-Flora, wood groundsel.)
It's amazing how nature finds a way!
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of slashes near us in various degrees of regrowth. Each stage has its own stars. - Margy
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