Like a tiny snowflake in summer

HAPPY CANADA DAY, everyone!

One of my favourite wildflowers, the uncommon Mitella nuda, Naked Mitrewort or Bishop's-cap is extremely tiny and barely visible in the forest. You really need to know what you are looking for. Stems are 3 - 20 cm tall, and (in my eyes) look like a short, thin strand of thread, almost invisible amongst the other plants in the forest. The fringed petals resemble a snowflake. The seed capsules, 2 - 3 mm long, open widely into shallow cups containing shiny, black seeds that ripen in late-summer. Needless to say, this is a supermacro : ) Photographed (with GREAT difficulty, lol!) at Spirit Rocks Sanctuary, near Rimbey (north of Calgary), Alberta.

www.em.ca/garden/native/nat_mitella_nuda.html