Each year I look forward to the season of the stately and charming Queen Anne’s Lace. The delicate lace-like flowers, which grow wild along our country road, beautify the landscape, attract pollinators and provide habitat for a variety of insects. Ants, attracted by the flower’s nectar, are beneficial since they help protect them from aphids.
“Not a weed but a seed that has blossomed into a flower indeed.” ~Deborah Parise
walking on a country road 
Gorgeous photos. I would love to be able to see a place with beauty like this. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Mags. They certainly do make the landscape more beautiful.
Lovely, but at a distance, I think. That assembly of red ants on the blossom head is cautionary: running through a pasture filled with Queen Anne’s Lace might yield an infestation of those ants. And those little suckers bite like crazy, right?
Queen Anne’s Lace is one of my most favorite wildflowers! I am eagerly awaiting their arrival, here in the Pacific Northwest. I love the quote you shared.
Thanks! Their beauty is hard to ignore.
One of my favorites.
Mine too. No two look exactly alike.
Gee……I wonder who they named them after?
Great shots Rebecca~
Thanks, Wayne. Yes, there’s a whole story that goes along with that. 🙂
It is a lovely flower, nice captures!
Thanks, Eliza.
Oh Rebecca, they are so pretty and delicate and you have captured them in different stages which I like too. Ours are not out yet, so I’ll enjoy yours here to tide me over.
Thanks, Linda. Unfortunately, since they grow on the roadside, our county eventually comes along and mows them down — the unfortunate consequence of being a weed.
Well, that is unfortunate … even if we don’t think of them as weeds, but rather a “ditch bouquet”.
I’ve never heard that before. Quite accurate! 🙂
Yes, more eloquent than just “weed”! 🙂
Lovely photos of a beautiful flower
Thanks, Melodie.