Pygmy/Dwarf Moss Gentian / Gentian prostrata On the Arethusa Cirque trail Yellow Heather / Phyllodoce glanduliflora Rock cress sp. White Mountain-avens / Dryas octopetala Leather-leaved Saxifrage / Leptarrhena pyrolifolia Deep purple Rockcress Checkerspot sp. Stonecrop buds Grouseberry / Vaccinium scoparium Alpine Speedwell, Veronica alpina Moss Campion / Silene acaulis Moss Gentian Wild Chives bud Subalpine Larch / Larix lyallii Arctic Willow Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel / Callospermophilus… Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata Pygmy-flower / Androsace septentrionalis Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Indian Paintbrush Always a delight Kananaskis Lakes Golden Dung Fly / Scathophaga stercoraria Lichens on Plateau Mountain Bronzebells / Stenanthium occidentale Upper Kananaskis Lake Greenish-flowered Wintergreen / Pyrola chlorantha Splashes of colour A strange fungus Shootingstar / Dodecatheon Rusty Gilled Polypore / Gloeophyllum sepiarium Yellow Heather / Phyllodoce glanduliflora Crab Spider on Goldenrod Northern Gentian / Gentianella amarella Vibrant weed Sibbaldia / Sibbaldia procumbens Brightening up the mountainside Snowy peaks near Forgetmenot Pond Lichen and wildflowers Gray Jay Forgetmenot Pond Company by the lake Kananaskis, here I come! Western/Lance-leaved Spring Beauty / Claytonia lan… Swaying in the breeze Coming in for a sip of sweet nectar American Pika Paintbrush / Castilleja sp. Endless alpine meadows My first glimpse of a Hoary Marmot Lady of the mountain top Dwarf Bitterroot / Lewisia pygmaea The beauty of Alberta One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora Mountain Dandelion Gray Jay sunbathing Harley : ) A view from south end of Plateau Mt. Ecological Re… False Huckleberry / Menziesia ferruginea Near north end of Plateau Mt. Ecological Reserve Heart-leaved Twayblade / Listera cordata var. neph… Arctic Willow / Salix arctica Golden Fleabane / Erigeron aureus Checkerspot Heart-leaved Twayblade / Listera cordata var. neph… Food .... please, pretty please? Heart-leaved Alexanders / Zizia aptera Indian Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata Windflower Shootingstar seedpod Plateau Mountain Windflower / Anemone multifida Mountain Buttercup / R. eschscholtzii Roseroot / Sedum rosea Silver Rockcress / Smelowskia calycina White Globe Flower / Trollius albiflorus laxus Woolly Pussytoes, Antennaria lanata Kitten-tails / Besseya wyomingensis Mystery alpine plant Anemone sp.? Tiny beauty on a log Frills and gills Spotted Saxifrage / Saxifraga bronchialis Marston Creek, Kananaskis Lichens at Marston Creek Marston Creek Yellow Morel A view from Kananaskis Village The meaning of winter Orange Hydnellum fungus One of a kind Purple duo Pearl Crescent Western Anemone seedheads Curled lip Just before the rain Parry's Townsendia Gunnery Pass A mixture of Lichens One-flowered Broomrape Rose root The beauty of Alberta Strawberries & cream fungus Wolf Willow