Wild Teasel • 2024 Year-at-a-glance Calendar Crewneck Sweatshirt

Prickly wildflower seed pods — feathery, rustic... A pastoral image of a large bed of prickly-stemmed, burr-type seed pods of the wildflower known as teasel, photographed alongside a creek that eventually empties into Lake Ontario (one of the Great Lakes). With their delicate, somewhat feathery yet rustic appearance, the teasel seed pods make an eye-catching splash of shapes & textures against their creekside habitat. Teasel has a fascinating history... According to Wikipedia, "...Fuller's Teasel (the cultivar group Dipsacus fullonum...) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly wool."