Wood Bittercress, Göteborg, October 18th, 2001

Cardamine flexuosa Skogsbräsma i juni, i augusti och i januari Eva Ekeblad, 2001

five fingertips free
on one hand
and five on the other
on a sunny day like this
I take the mittens off even so
once I get moving

   With all the pictures I take around these blocks one would think that when I see a hole in the ground I should have a snap in store of what was there earlier. Here I can see that there were white flowers in the beginning of August. No closeup. A vague memory of something faintly boring, like petunias. There WAS petunias in at least one of the other similar roundels. This is not a place I have been looking closely although it's just by my path: the weeds looking just like more chickweed and hedge mustard. I must have been in a particularly leisurely mood today.
   And I've been sort of looking for a new generation of the hairy bittercress (which has much more upright seed pods) ... and sort of remembering how Erik had pointed out the wood bittercress to us as a fairly trivial weed at the VEAB nursery (where they currently have some uninvited guests of considerably higher botanical interest). Long story for a couple of small non-spectacular green sprigs - interesting though, how weeds like this one go urban. And, of course: another new species on my list.