Not all flowers are big and beautiful. This is the tiny bloom of some sort of vegetable planted under the staircase and gone to seed. It provides cover for a spider that would otherwise have nothing more than the seam in the staircase to hide in. Some blooms are magnificent. Others are almost like afterthoughts. Of course, they all accomplish the same end. They all produced seed that produces more plants. But like the beautiful and the disfigured, plants go through the motions with varied degrees of perfection. Some stun with their beauty. Others simply do their job, as if beauty is an unnecessary ingredient.