Yellow Owl-clover / Orthocarpus luteus
Russian Thistle / Salsola kali
Black Meddick / Medicago lupulina
Purple Prairie-Clover
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Sticky Purple Geranium / Geranium viscosissimum
Upright Prairie Coneflower / Ratibida columnifera…
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Bluer than the sky
A mix of colours
River Beauty
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Prostrate Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens
Bronzebells
Dotted Blazingstar
Ladybug on Goat's-beard
Scarlet Butterfly Weed / Gaura coccinea
Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda
Northern Gentian
White Angelica
The same but different
White Sweetclover / Melilotus alba
Campion sp.
White Water Crowfoot / Ranunculus aquatilis
Stiff Yellow Paintbrush / Castilleja lutescens
Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi…
Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale
Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum
Cicer Milkvetch seedpods
Tartarian Honeysuckle /Lonicera tatarica
Invasive beauty
Hopper on Broadleaf Gumweed / Grindelia squarrosa
Black Currant Pie, anyone?
Fireweed / Epilobium angustifolium
Yellow Sweetclover / Melilotus officinalis
Bog Cranberry / Vaccinuum oxycoccos
Autumnal Water-Starwort / Callitriche hermaphrodit…
Red-osier Dogwood / Cornus sericea
Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita
Goat's-beard glory
Mountain Cranberry / Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Silver threads
Reaching out to the sun
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Four receptive Fireweed stigmas / Epilobium angustifolium
A pretty sight, I think, when looking at a Fireweed flower very closely. Saw this one when I was on a walk at Clearwater Park two days ago.
"Coming to a newly opened (Fireweed) flower, a bee finds abundant pollen on the anthers and a sip of nectar in the cup below. At this stage the flower keeps its still immature style curved downward and backward lest it should become self-fertilized - an evil ever to be guarded against by ambitious plants. In a few days, or after the pollen has been removed, up stretches the style, spreading its four receptive stigmas just where an in-coming bee, well dusted from a younger flower, must certainly leave some pollen on their sticky surfaces." From chestofbooks.com/flora-plants/flowers.
"Coming to a newly opened (Fireweed) flower, a bee finds abundant pollen on the anthers and a sip of nectar in the cup below. At this stage the flower keeps its still immature style curved downward and backward lest it should become self-fertilized - an evil ever to be guarded against by ambitious plants. In a few days, or after the pollen has been removed, up stretches the style, spreading its four receptive stigmas just where an in-coming bee, well dusted from a younger flower, must certainly leave some pollen on their sticky surfaces." From chestofbooks.com/flora-plants/flowers.
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