Okay, so the yellow flower is tansy ragwort, @angry-physicist has informed me.



This is a weed that is toxic to many animals, including horses and it spreads quickly. “the yellow flowers are Common Groundsel, also called Tansy Ragwort. Their Latin name is of old origin, derived from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning literally “ground swallower” or “ground glutton,” referring to the rapid way the weed spreads.” (x)

But the purple flower is more difficult to identify. I don’t think they’re nightshade.

I think it’s milkweed.

This is what one site states about the mythology of milkweed.

The name of the Milkweed, asclepias, derives from the Greek God Aeskulap, the god of healing. Asklepios, bearer of a serpent-entwined staff and son of Apollo, was such a skilled healer that he was said to be able to raise the dead.



I have found only one mythological indication regarding the quality of the Milkweed, and this comes from India. It therefore does not directly apply to the common Milkweed, but to an Indian member of the family, Asclepias acida. This was called the Soma plant in Indian mythology. Soma was a divine drink, and the home of the Soma plant was fabled to be in heaven. The God Indra is said to have created the universe when under the influence of Soma (Grieve).



All this is directly in line with what we have already learned about this plant.



Rudolf Steiner indicates that human milk reaches the will forces of the infant, and animal milk is a food stuff that keeps man in balance between the spiritual and the material, unites him with the terrestrial without chaining him to it. The Old Testament speaks of the land of milk and honey. Honey again is linked to the ego-forces of the human being (Steiner, p. 21).



Milkweed as a flower essence is used to raise the soul from a state of lethargy and regressive helplessness, to help it to incarnate and to wake up a pathologically withdrawing ego (Kaminski and Katz). (x)



So if that’s what Dean is laying in… perhaps this Darkness isn’t as evil as we thought…