Wildflowers are romantic too - who says wildflowers aren't beautiful?

For a city built on wetlands, the dedicated flower displays are specially planted by the greening department to meet the public's demand for flower viewing, and after years of cultivation, they have gradually given rise to distinctive flower festivals such as the Bay Plum Blossom, Gucun Cherry Blossom, People's Park Begonia, Nanhui Peach Blossom, Fengxian Rapeseed Flower, and Binjiang Azalea, giving everyone a great place for leisure and flower viewing. It is just that when those flowers are in full bloom, the spectacle of nowhere to park and overwhelming crowds also becomes a different kind of scenery.

Actually, there is no need for so much trouble. When these artificial flower displays retire from this year's stage, it is also the season when rural wildflowers bloom freely. If you are mindful, when you bend down, you will see a completely different world of wildflowers.

Chinese Violet Cress

Also known as February Orchid, although it is a native wildflower, it is now often planted in large patches in parks and among tree belts. When a blue ocean unfolds before your eyes, besides gasping in amazement, what else can you do?

Philadelphia Fleabane

Seen everywhere, with fuzzy leaves topped by a cluster of white flowers jostling to be first, each with fine thread-like white petals surrounding a yellow center.

Spinyfruit Buttercup

Look at those leaves - they look very much like wild celery, but in fact it is completely unrelated to celery and belongs to two different families. On roadsides, in residential compounds, and in parks, you will see its small yellow flowers growing in patches.

Persian Speedwell

An even more common little wildflower, its blue flowers bloom in patches and stand out even more against the green leaves. Sometimes you will find one or two pale-colored flowers among them; in fact, that is caused by poor growth, which makes the flower color paler.

Shepherd's Purse

When you eat steamed buns or wontons, have you ever ordered the shepherd's purse filling? That's right, this is it. It is both a wild vegetable and a wildflower.

Incised Corydalis

The flower looks very much like a bicycle seat, so it is sometimes also called bicycle-seat flower. It produces pod-like fruits. When you gently touch a ripe pod, the little pod will immediately split open and curl outward, while the seeds inside fly into the distance as the pod bursts.

Large Vetch

Also known as famine-relief wild pea, possibly because during natural disasters people gathered its seeds to fill their stomachs, hence the name. It is a close relative of the broad bean, but its blood relationship with the pea is somewhat more distant.

Seven-star Violet

Relatively uncommon. But sometimes you will see patches of small white flowers blooming right on the ground. When a breeze passes, they look just like white butterflies dancing among the grass.

Henbit Deadnettle

Its small pink flowers bloom in early spring. Look carefully - don't they look like pink rabbit ears?

Ground Ivy

This is a versatile traditional Chinese medicine.

Scissors-leaf Ixeris

This is a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying.

Cnidium

It is a distant relative of the carrot.

Of course, there are all kinds of other wildflowers waiting for you

Hairy Bittercress

Lalang Grass

Polypogon

Melilot

Chickweed

Triggerplant

Rorippa

Poison Buttercup

Mazus

Carolina Geranium

Tufted Loosestrife

Viola

By the way, now is exactly the time when locust flowers are fragrant. Do you see the pure white covering the trees? Do you smell that faint fresh scent? Do you miss the refreshing scrambled eggs with locust flowers, or are you thinking again of the sweet locust flower honey?

Are your eyes dazzled by the variety?

Yes, nature is a marvelous creator. Through millions of years of evolution, it has shaped life forms of every bizarre kind. Only when you step into nature, get close to nature, and truly bend down to carefully observe these lives will you discover many mysteries and surprises in them.

Come, let us step into nature together and share the splendor and richness that nature brings us!