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The flowers have a very striking colour combination – perhaps as a warning that every part of the plant is poisonous.

More pictures of potatoes in flower. Two varieties are represented here.

Notice how reminiscent the flowers and especially the leaves are to nightshades such as those in the next but one post.

They are related, and many parts of the potato plant, including the berries if they are allowed to grow, are poisonous.. The spud itself should be avoided if parts of the skin are green.

Grass flowers don’t have strong colours or pleasant scents because they disperse their pollen on the breeze, unfortunately for hay fever sufferers.

Normally a garden plant, with flowers that have a shape resembling the leg of traditional dutch trousers.

This one must have been an escape. It was growing in a hedgerow near Worfield. The pictures were taken just before the flowers were completely out.

Actually growing in a neighbour’s garden.