Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: Bog asphodel

  • The bonebreaker of Great Ayton Moor

    The bonebreaker of Great Ayton Moor

    It’s been a botanical sort of week. Bog asphodel, I’ve always thought it a strange name. The bog bit is easy, but asphodel? Sounds very un-English to me. Its use was first documented in the late 14th-century and derives from the Latin ‘asphodelus‘ and the Greek ‘asphodelos‘ meaning the king’s spear. It was “the peculiar…