September 11: A salute to bitterweed
Sep. 12th, 2010 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentBitterweed is a scrubby little flower. It grows in dense clusters of dwarfish gold, daisy-like blooms in the worst places you can find. Cracks in pavement. The edges of roads and sidewalks. Construction sites, wastelands. Dry, sandy, rocky ground, in the middle of the most drought-prone season.
It tastes terrible. Cattle know better than to eat it, but sheep will do so and can poison themselves. It supposedly will even make bees' honey taste bitter.
Bitterweed is a survivor. It's not the prettiest flower, and it's well-named, but I'm very fond of it for the way it grows where almost nothing else can.
It tastes terrible. Cattle know better than to eat it, but sheep will do so and can poison themselves. It supposedly will even make bees' honey taste bitter.
Bitterweed is a survivor. It's not the prettiest flower, and it's well-named, but I'm very fond of it for the way it grows where almost nothing else can.