03/04/2025
My Wild Flower of the Day: Butterbur (petasites hybridus) Sedge sure seems to approve of this wildflower; that or he wanted to steal the photoshoot for himself 🤣. Where you find one Butterbur spike, there will always be more close by. Loving damp fields and ditches Butterbur will most often be found in large carpeting colonies, first of lovely frilly pink spikes filled with tiny pink and white flowers, then followed by giant heart-shaped leaves that can reach up to 1 metre across. In the past these leaves were used to wrap butter, hence the common name!
