Flora's dial (thing)

Flora's Dial is a dial made of flowers which open and close at stated hours to make a clock or sundial of sorts.

Flowers that Open at...

• 1 AM : (Scandinavian Sowthistle closes)
• 2 AM : Yellow Goat's Beard
• 3 AM : Common Ox Tongue
• 4 AM : Hawkweed, Late Flowering Dandelion or Wild Succory
• 5 AM : Wild Water Lily, Naked Stalked Poppy or Smooth Sowthistle
• 6 AM : Shrubby Hawkweed or Spotted Cat's Ears
• 7 AM : White Water Lily, Garden Lettuce or African Marigold
• 8 AM : Scarlet Pimpernel, Mouse Ear Hawkweed or Proliferous Pink
• 9 AM : Field Marigold
• 10 AM : Red Sandwort
• 11 AM : Star of Bethlehem
• Noon : Ice Plant
• 1 PM : Common Purslane
• 2 PM : (Purple Sandwort closes)
• 3 PM : (Dandelion closes)
• 4 PM : (White Spiderwort closes)
• 5 PM : Julap
• 6 PM : Dark Crane's Bill
• 7 PM : (Naked Stalked Poppy closes)
• 8 PM : (Orange Day Lily closes)
• 9 PM : Cactus Opuntia
• 10 PM : Purple Bindweed
• 11 PM : Night Blooming Catch Fly
• Midnight : (Late Flowering Dandelion closes)

Flowers that Close at...

• 1 AM : Scandinavian Sowthistle
• 2 AM : (Yellow Goat's Beard opens)
• 3 AM : (Common Ox Tongue opens)
• 4 AM : (Wild Succory opens)
• 5 AM : (several Sowthistles opens)
• 6 AM : (Spotted Cat's Ears opens)
• 7 AM : Night Flowering Catch Fly
• 8 AM : Evening Primrose
• 9 AM : Purple Bindweed
• 10 AM : Yellow Goat's Beard
• 11 AM : Bethlehem Star
• Noon : Field Sowthistle
• 1 PM : Proliferous Pink
• 2 PM : Purple Sandwort
• 3 PM : Dandelion or Field Marigold
• 4 PM : White Spadewort or Field Bindwort
• 5 PM : Common Cat's Ears
• 6 PM : White Water Lily
• 7 PM : Naked Stalked Poppy
• 8 PM : Orange Day Lily or Wild Succory
• 9 PM : Convolvulus Linnaeus or Chickweed
• 10 PM : Common Nipplewort
• 11 PM : Smooth Sowthistle
• Midnight : Creeping Mallow or Late Dandelion

E. Cobham Brewer's  1898 The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable