Cow Parsnip--- Heracleum lanatum --- an Umbelliferaceae

 

Huge leaves feeding a tubular construction that peaks in June with the flashy white flowers. Favored by all kinds of large pollinating insects that need its flat stable landing field. It soon drops its white corolla and becomes pregnant with seed pods,

The stamens are held high sure to brush onto any nectar searching insect

 

Prodding into the inners for nectar—

 

 

Here is te stage soon after the corolla has fallen

 

 

 

 

This is early fall—those are oil ducts on the dried seed.

The brown wooden tubular plants are characteristic of fall when the above ground plant dies off and the roots await another spring – to do it all over again.

 

 

 

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