#knapweed

[toothwalker]

Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), growing at the roadside of a country lane. The flowers can be pink or purple, but the ones around here are always purple, in my experience.

Surrey, UK, July 2026

[quinnfrankephotography]

Some photos from my walk today. I felt very unmotivated this morning but I pushed through it and was eaten constantly by bugs in a hot humid valley. Sometimes you kind of wish you had stayed home.

[blooming-lenses]

squarrose knapweed

2024/05/10

[subira-stan]

Knapweed use in Kilima:

Reth, Kenyatta, Elouisa, and Badruu are regular smokers.

Nai'o occasionally splits a joint with Kenyatta or his dad, but he only smokes socially.

Ashura and Chayne smoke for medicinal reasons.

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Delaila makes her own infused butters and oils to make edibles. Badruu and Nai'o say that her knapweed apple tart is to die for. (Auni is pissed that he's not old enough to have any)

Zeki regularly purchases edibles from her.

Kenli also regularly purchases edibles from her. Kenyatta steals them pretty often, but he never notices because he just assumes that he lost them somewhere or that he ate them and forgot.

Reth will occasionally buy infused ingredients from Delaila and make his own edibles. He's still fine tuning the recipes because he can't afford to get the ingredients that often.

Kenyatta begged for Reth to make her a knapweed infused birthday cake so that everyone at her party would get high. He didn't do that. Instead he made her a batch of brownies and waited until the party to give them to her.

[kristo-flowers]

Kapweed seeds

[coffeenuts]

[dragoncuspid]

Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)

(Photo taken by me on FujiFilm x-t30)

[taninonina]

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