Water avens - known and familiar
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Water avens
Water avens | Ojamõõl |
In humid meadows or forests, at the outskirts of the garden - sometimes in the shadow of your stairs – a pretty bell-like plant flowers: the water avens. A stalk covered with downy soft hairs, a nodding head and small leaves make a fragile impression. At a superficial glance the water avens can be confused with an early spring flowerer, the small pasque flower.
When the flowering ends around mid-summer the stalks of the plant straighten up; it is time to spread the seeds and with a proudly raised head animals, and why not people too, help to carry them on.The wind does not help very much in spreading seeds.