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I found this flower hidden in oak scrub. The strange flower colour is completely camouflaged. It was more or less the only flower around, all the rest of plants were still dormant or sprouting. Hesperis pendula is a perennial herb of the Middle East, growing between Turkey and Israel. The fruit pods are pending - hence the plant's name.
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A perennial herbaceous plant, plant covered by small bristly hairs. Flowers cross like, greenish to light brown. Fruits r pending pods. In Israel it is rare and endangered.
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Hesperis pendula is an East Mediterranean perennial. It blooms at the end of spring and has greenish camouflaged flowers. their colour is hard to photograph and the ring flash helps.
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and here is the fruit
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Hesperis pendula is a peculiar greenish-brownish flower. In Israel it is rare and endangered.
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