Cereal field with wild flowers, Colfiorito, Umbria, Italy - Wild Flowers - 1
In mountain regions of the Apennines, the fields often have stony soil and the crops grow with the traditional weeds of cultivation that have become rarities wherever cultivation is intensive. Here there are blue cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) corn Chamomile (Anthemis arvensis), scarlet poppies (Papaver rhoeas) pink corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and the tiny yellow corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis). The cereals are often species of primitive wheats such as Farro, ow prized as a ‘luxury’ food.Sibillini, Umbria, Italy June 2017


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Seven-leaflet Bittercress (Cardamine heptaphylla)
Lichen: Pyrenula nitida
Ivy broomrape (Orobanche hederae)
Birthwort (Aristolochia clematitis)
Field cow-wheat (Melampyrum arvense)
Farro (Spelt) (Triticum turgidum) a primitive wheat
Water lily (Nymphae alba)
White helleborine (Cephalanthera damasonium)
Purple toadflax (Linaria pupurea)
Ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)
Hoary plantain (Plantago media)
Dog Rose (Rosa canina)
Aquilegia, Wild columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris)
Eugenia's pansy (Viola eugeniae)
Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala)