#umbel

[mockva]

back to the jungle

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Spring 2026–The Season of the White Umbel Flower

(Edit: I’ve been told multiple times that not all of these are umbels, but you get the idea)

Elderflower, Queen Anne’s lace, poison hemlock, yarrow, hedge parsley, and water hemlock—I’ve only made tea out of two of them. 😊

[calicotisane]

Ok whatever

[kristo-flowers]

Wild carrot in autumn

[poop-me-a-flower]

Hoya ‘Mathilde’ popping out tons of blooms. The plant turned 2 years old this month and decided to put on a show. The flowers are very perfumed; it’s a heavy scent but I like it.

Too bad I spotted a mealy.

(Hoya ‘Mathilde’ - H. carnosa x H. serpens)

[meriol-lehmann]

rang saint-isidore, hébertville

[caviarsonoro]

Listen/purchase: Umbel by loscil

[mountrainiernps]

Landscape Language

Umbel (noun) – a curved or flat-topped flower cluster where flower stalks arise from same point

Last week’s post featured a raceme type of flower, which has blooms arranged in a line along a stem. Another type of inflorescence (flower cluster) is called an umbel. An umbel has numerous stems that originate from the same point to form a flat or curved cluster of flowers, like an umbrella. Gray’s lovage (Ligusticum grayi) has compound umbel flowers: each inflorescence is made up of several umbels. Gray’s lovage is a common subalpine wildflower.

NPS Photo of gray’s lovage. ~kl