Deptford Pink

Somehow I happened to notice these tiny blossoms growing along an occasionally mowed path in my otherwise overgrown field. The blossoms are so small, and were growing so low to the ground, that I couldn't manage to get an in-focus picture. This is the best I could do:


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Here's a taller plant that had no blossoms:



These flowers are native to Europe (named for the town of Deptford in England), but naturalized in Indiana — which means that that they are "growing in harmony with their new environment causing no disruptions to established biodiversity."[1]


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[1] https://botanicalpaperworks.com/blog/non-native-wildflowers/#:~:text=These%20neutral%20non%2Dnative%20wildflowers,problems%20in%20the%20local%20environment .