#parnassia

[wild-e-eep]

Grass of parnassus - Parnassia palustris - a beautiful little wild flower of marshy places.

[thelethalsilence]

Lassen National Park, CA, USA

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 18 September 2022

Even though it is autumn a few plants of Parnassia palustris (grass-of-Parnassus, bog star) are continuing to flower and setting seeds. This is a wildflower of short grassland on cliff tops and can be exposed to sea spray thrown up by storms. It has been described as “a flower of cold beauty and a symbol of the wilderness and wet”.

Jill Raggett

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What kind of flower is this? It’s Parnassia, whose petals look as if someone painted them ever so delicately. Arty and awesome, right? (Photos by Jim Fowler.)

[cedar-glade]

Marl bed obligate and fen obligate, 

Parnassia glauca

Fen Grass of Parnassus

[blackforestnature]

Parnassia palustris (en: grass-of-Parnassus,de: Sumpf-Herzblatt)

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 14 July 2021

The flower of Parnassia palustris (grass-of-Parnassus, bog star) has been described as a “cold beauty and a symbol of the wilderness and wet”. Here it was growing on the short turf of a cliff top meadow in Westray, Orkney. The white flowers have veins of translucent green above heart-shaped leaves.

Jill Raggett

[monmorgandy]

Grass-of-Parnassus by Philip Bouchard Via Flickr: Kidneyleaf Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia asarifolia), also called Appalachian Grass-of-Parnassus. Photographed at Jacks River Fields USFS Campground in the Chattahoochee National Forest, Fannin County, Georgia.