FLOWER AND FLY

It's Flower Friday and, as I have mentioned before, in my neighborhood flowers of any kind are hard to come by in December...unless you're talking about snow flowers.  Hence the backblip from warmer times.
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This is the beautiful lilac colored top of a Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense); it is an alien plant in the U.S. being native to Europe where it is known as Creeping Thistle.
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Dunno how it got here....perhaps the clinging thistle managed to cling to the wool coat of a visitor to Canada...hence the name.  A common Green Bottle Fly (Luciliata sericata) is assisting in pollination efforts.
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