July is the time of flowering of fireweed, this plant is also called ivan-tea. Purple flowers of fireweed visible from afar. You walk along the coast and suddenly such beauty, it is a pity that willow-tea does not grow everywhere in the coastal strip of the Oka River.
I always have a special feeling flowers that grow near water. I do not know why, because flowers are beauty wherever they grow. But it is a great pleasure for me to see reservoirs next to growing flowers.
I do not know what these delicate pink flowers are called, but I adore them too.
These flowers are called umbrella susak. Interestingly, the developed large roots of the plant contain a lot of starch, they can be eaten. Hardly anyone uses the rhizomes of this plant for food, but they are also good for health, they are used in the treatment of cough. Long leaves can be used for weaving baskets, boxes and other products. Here are how many useful properties have appeared at the modest plant, inconspicuous at first glance.
Past blooming water lilies is it possible to pass indifferently.
These are not flowers, but I still like to look at the velvety chocolate cobs of this plant. We call it a reed, but its name is correct. It is found here in separate islands on the Oka and its tributary Orlik.
Rogaz is considered marsh grass. It grows mostly in the water. We periodically clean the river within the city limits, but the cattail is never touched, for reservoirs it is an ornament.