With daily temperatures in the mid-30s now [Centigrade], the valley around us is changing rapidly. Wildflowers are no more, their colourful blooms have done their job and are turning into seedheads which bob in the heavy summer breeze. 
This [above] is Wild Carrot, Daucus Carota. Its plate-sized white flowers line the roadside verges here until mid-summer when the seedheads appear [below], like goblets lifted to the sun. The umbel [flowerheads which open out rather like umbrellas] are flat or slightly concave, and similarly the seedheads also incurve conspicuously.
5 to remember
agitarse – to bob
al borde de carretera – the roadside verge
una copa – a goblet
un paraguas – an umbrella
conspicuamente – conspicuously
‘Common Wildflowers of Spain’ by Austen Colwell [UK: Santana]
And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
In the heat of summer, wildflowers transform into seedheads #plants in #Spain http://wp.me/p3dYp6-1N1 via @Spanish_Valley
Notes on a Spanish Valley 
Love that phrase – like goblets lifted to the sun.
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Thx! SD
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For me the Wild carrot is August here! It seems to survive the hot dry season so well. Unlike me as I wilting in the heat.
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Don’t ever go near it with clothing or laundry. I once shook out a beach towel, dropped it on a pile of seedbeds, and it never recovered. Lots of sticky seeds attached with nature’s superglue 🙂 SD
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Thankfully it’s further away from the house but there are so many burrs now. I look after a friend’s dog an am forever picking them out of her coat.
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