Welcome...
This user is a WikiOgre. |
This user is drug-free. |
This user is right-handed. |
This user is a member of WikiProject Pokémon. |
|}
Did You Know...
- ... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts (example pictured)?
- ... that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
- ... that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia, were arrested for bribery before the election?
- ... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet?
- ... that "At the Name of Jesus" has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
- ... that Liza Soberano's early acting roles include playing the third wheel in romance films?
- ... that Maryland state delegate C. T. Wilson compared negotiating with the Catholic Church on the Maryland Child Victims Act to making "a deal with the devil"?
- ... that educational writer Ștefan Tita gave Romanian students impractical advice on mending damaged bark with bandages of dirt?
- ... that Eminem promoted "Houdini" with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?
In The News...
- The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer (pictured) becomes prime minister.
- Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, leaves at least 22 people dead in the Caribbean and Venezuela.
- In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof serving as the prime minister.
- A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 120 people dead.
Tip of the day
List the things to do for an article
If an article has a number of tasks to be handled that are community consensus, you may insert {{todo}} (including the four curly braces) at the top of the article's talk page, and edit it to make the tasks more visible to the public.
– –
Read more:
Quote of the Moment Never forget. |
---|
Cirsium palustre, the marsh thistle, is a herbaceous biennial (or often perennial) flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, where it is particularly common on damp ground such as marshes, wet fields, moorland and beside streams. In Canada and the northern United States it is an introduced species that has become invasive. It grows in dense thickets that can crowd out slower growing native plants. Cirsium palustre can reach up to 2 metres (7 ft) in height and features strong stems with few branches which are covered in small spines. In its first year the plant grows as a dense rosette and in subsequent years a candelabra of dark purple or occasionally white flowers, 10–20 millimetres (0.4–0.8 in) with purple-tipped bracts. In the northern hemisphere these are produced from June to September. The plant provides an important source of nectar for pollinators. This C. palustre flower was photographed in Niitvälja, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus