This has got to be one of the world's ugliest flowers. I have no idea what they are called. I first saw them where I grew up in South Alabama. They grow very low on the ground and they are well...just plain ugly. The other kids always told me "do not touch that flower or you will wet the bed!" I NEVER EVER touched one. I DID NOT want to wet the bed!
I have also seen these flowers growing in Georgia. Last week I found this bunch growing under my blackberry bushes. They are the tallest I've ever seen. Probably 6-8 inches tall and I think these are actually pretty. Can you guess what I did???? Yes, I touched one. Did I wet the bed?? Well......
NO I DIDN'T!!! Now I wonder why kids tell such tales as this. Has anyone else ever heard that these flowers will make you wet the bed?Luiz is the host of Today's Flowers. Visit here if you'd like to join in and view beautiful flowers from around the world.
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I have seen this flower in wild flower seed and I am sure someone will be able to tell you what it is. Nice photography. You are an inspiration to me and others.
I have mine up at Canon Pixels. I hope you can see it if you have the time.
I've never seen those flowers but they seem quite pretty to me.
The first wild flower that comes in the spring from the ground here in Finland is tiny and yellow and really the ugliest flower I've ever seen. :D
Ha, I never wet my bed but I touched every flower I saw.
What cruel things children play!
I should be happy that I am the catholic well-or-over-protected child I am that I was...
No, the first picture is great! Its simply real life!
Wet bed!!! Poor wild yellow flower.
Though fathers say it for kidding.
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I think it is pretty! :)
Never heard about stories like that.....
People have always been superstitious i suppose....
May be it makes life more exciting... ;)
I've never heard of this before, but I do think it's pretty! :)
(am glad it didn't make you wet the bed. LOL)
This was funny! I like how you can combine beauty with humor. Flowers are for sniffing and touching, some might even help you not wet the bed!
Dot: Great story, you did make them look beautiful in the second photo.
yellow flowers really give someone a bright day. thanks for brightening the days of anyone who will pass by your blog!
My flower for today is posted here. Please take a look if you have time. Have a great week ahead!
Hi, dot
It was very funny, but the flowers are beautiful wild
hugs, Denise
Dot
perhaps one of the daisy plants?
or Autumn Hawkbit - Leontodon autumnalis??
Lovely pictures and quite an interesting story:)
-Cheers.
Thanks Dot
for your visit and comment.
No, I've never heard of touching something that made you wet the bed! That's funny. But these little yellow flowers are quite pretty.
Dot,
I see these flowers all of the time around this time of year. A bunch of them were growing along side of the trail that I hiked yesterday morning.
Never heard that touching a flower will make you wet the bed....
But I know for sure that if you catch someone asleep and slip their fingers into a glass of water, the possiblity of them wetting themselves is near 75%.
lol
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What strange things one hears as a child. We take that stuff with us everywhere! I enjoyed this little yellow flower. But I'm not going to touch the screen when it's on.
Ha! No I never heard a tale like that for sure. Growing up I really don't remember many flowers around my neighborhood.. Maybe just some pansies that left a lasting impression on me...
I never heard that!! and they are so pretty!!!!
We have those flowers here, forget the name, but like many wild flowers that frequent some of my beds, I allow them to go on...
West the BED? WOW what kids tell us LOL
Glad it is not true ;)
LOL, Dot! I don't think they are ugly, at all. Nice photos!
LOL! Beautiful flowers! And I'm glad there was no bed wetting! ;-)
Paz
I think your last photos are gorgeous!
I hope someone knows that story - sure would like to know where it came from.
Never saw that flower before. I think it looks like little fans and love the alternating groups of petals between 3 and 5.
Funny story and I think they are well not sooo ugly just a little. :)
that's a pretty flowers..very cute and beautiful..
You're always a great photographer!
Marvelous takes!
Thanks for visit me!
Santilli
Beautiful yellow flowers.
It must be a kind of wild daisies. We have a lot of daisies in Greece and we pick them the first day of May and we make wreath for our houses.
those close ups are fantastic
Their petals look like butterfly wings - I think they're pretty.
I like these flowers but... I don´t know what they are called. I even don´t know if they grow in Holland! Thanks for the visit.
These yellow flowers are looking so beautiful. I want to see them in my garden.
They are the beautiful flowers of the field. Just know see them.
There is no such thing as an ugly flower - and you have just proved it!
I have seen this wild flowers back in my home country countless times. They grow everywhere and they're just beautiful! Nice shots too:) My first time to join with this Meme! I hope you can drop by! Mine is here. Happy TF!~
I kind of like it also...never heard the saying before.
I think they are pretty, glad you didn't wet the bed, would you have told us if you did? LOL Great story!
I have never heard that story, Dot. Bwahaha! Isn't it amazing how kids spread such stories and even more amazing that we believed them?
never heard of such thing :)), but the flowers still look wonderful to me! they are so delicate, and the yellow is beautiful!
I don't know the name, I've never seen the flower. Your post is funny. Isn't amazing how folk tales start/spread?
beautiful flowers.
Oh I think they are cute. :-) Have a nice week!
Oh, why do you think they're ugly when you took such a beautiful picture!? :-)
Dot,
I don't know this flower....but I think it's pretty!!
LOL- However- I won't take the chance and TOUCH one, if I happen to come across them! I have enough problems as it is! ;)
Junie
That is so funny wetting the bed LOL well i think they are beautiful, something so pretty about yellow flowers, hopefully they didn't stink that would make them ugly for sure.
Nice shot
Haha Dot very funny, didn't they tell you it will take at least a few weeks before........
You are too severe.
Those flowers are not ugly.
Purty .. the center of these reminds me of those little purple flowers .. no idea what either are ...
:-Daryl
Children (10 and under) who touch those nasty things will wet the bed that same night. People 11-20 will wet their bed on the second night; not the first. 21-30 on the third, etc. It would take five days for me, but I know better than to go touching little ugly flowers. Your time is coming, Pal! ;-)
Oh, and hey! That bottom photo is the prettiest picture of an ugly flower I have ever seen!
Not sure what is is, but I am guessing it is related to the coreopsis. I don't think they are all that ugly.
Cute little wild flower.
Nice bedwetting story. I'm sure it's made up.
Pretty flower though :-) and yes, your comment was received, thanks !
Don't know the name but they have their own beauty.
The color is great. I think the individual flowers are very pretty. Maybe the spareness keeps their beauty simple.
Nice yellow.
They are not the prettiest flowers of the world, but they are not the uglier, they have a beautyful and sunny yellow.
When I was a child, where I grew up, there were old women that knew how to use flowers and plants, to cure people .If one said "don't touch this flowers", we didn't!Maybe one of your little pals had such a grandmother and knew which flowers were dangerous...
Well, we have those up here too, and I believe them to be Sneezeweed. I posted some on my blog woodynook creations a couple days ago. If you have a minute check it out, and see if it's the same. Let me know.
Beautiful flowers :)
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