So it’s called fox-and-cubs (or orange hawkweed)   Every year I enjoy watching this bright orange flower appear in the derelict garden of the old Hatton Smiddy  amid the discarded building rubble.   This year it has been particular amundant.  To get its picture I have to get in quickly, not that it is fast moving, but before the owner of the Smiddy gets out with his strimmer.

Since my wild flower book is in the motorhome at the moment I did an internet search on this flower tonight and came across the fox-and-cubs name for the first time.  It seems that people thought that the way the buds huddle round, under the flower in bloom was like a vixen and her cubs. And of course there is the colour.
I read that it is originally an alpine plant from central Europe and was introduced into British gardens in the 17th century, from where it escaped into our countryside.
British botanists seem to accept this orange flower quite happily ( not like the dreaded Japanese Knotweed) but there seems to be great concern in some north-western areas of the USA and Canada about the invasion of this plant there and all sorts of control measures are in place.