Monday, August 19, 2019

Some rabbits have many feet

... or so it seems. Here's a rabbit's foot clover as proof.

Rabbit's foot clover, Trifolium arvense, aka hare's foot clover, stone clover, or oldfield clover.

The hairy heads supposedly look like rabbits' feet. It is a annual or biennial plant, native to Europe, and introduced here. It likes dry ground,

... typically found at the edge of fields, in wastelands, at the side of roads, on sand dunes, and opportunistically in vineyards and orchards when they are not irrigated. (Wikipedia)

Here, it is growing beside the sandy trails in the dry meadow just inland from the dunes at Oyster Bay Shoreline Park. There were many two years ago, few last year, and this year they're back in force.

Another couple of plants, with wild strawberry leaves and runners. And a critter with long antennae.

They are so pale, and so fuzzy, that in the noonday light, they almost disappear, seeming to be a pink haze over the ground, until you get down to their level. In this meadow, that's at ankle height.

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