Little orange beauties
Jacob's Ladder / Polemonium sp.
Remembering the beauty of fall
Sweet-flowered Androsace / Androsace chamaejasme
Stripes
Striped Coralroot
Canadian Lynx
Another rainy day
A treat to see and hear
Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
Hybrid Yellow-rumped Warbler
Delicate moth on delicate plant
Little angels in pink, polka dot nightgowns
Heart-leaved Arnica
The stern look
Big, shiny eyes
Power of the Golden Eagle
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Just for fun
Magnificent Peyto Lake
Fiery Fireweed in its fall colours
They always look so serious
Little alien at Lake Louise
Silene sp
A splash of colour in the forest
The beginning of fall
Coral Fungus sp
Bold and simple
Pushing up through the mosses
Bolete sp.
Bow Lake - Impressive Art
Spiked beauty
Feather finery
Lactarius rufus
Along the Smith-Dorrien / Spray Trail
Suillus tomentosus - for mushroom soup
Columbian Ground Squirrel
Peaks and clouds
Short-eared Owl
Golden Eagle
Icy reflections
A view from Mt. Shark, Kananaskis
Impressive
Mistaya Canyon, Icefields Parkway
Strawberries and cream fungus
Summer joy
Lake Louise on a rainy day
Nothing but fluff
Cascade Mt., Banff
Police Car Moth caterpillar
Forgetmenot Pond
A real treat from the weekend
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)
Colourful lichen on a bridge railing
Through a fancy window
Lavendula
Here one minute, gone the next
Through the Rocky Mountains
Moth on a washroom window
Happiness is ... playing in a puddle
Not dressed in their Sunday best
Added for colour
Happily feeding
Beautiful Comma butterfly
Beautiful blue Iris
Purple duo
Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi…
Location
See also...
Keywords
Authorizations, license
-
Visible by: Everyone -
All rights reserved
-
134 visits
Alpine Bistort / Polygonum viviparum
On 10 July 2012, I drove out west of the city, past Bragg Creek and along Elbow Falls Trail (Highway 66) to Maclean Pond. Found some of these small wildflowers, belonging to the Polygonaceae family, in bloom.
"The flowers are white or pink in the upper part of the spike; lower ones are replaced by bulbils. Flowers rarely produce viable seeds and reproduction is normally by the bulbils, (which fall from the plant). Very often a small leaf develops when the bulbil is still attached to the mother plant. The bulbils are rich in starch and are a preferred food for Rock Ptarmigan.... As with many other alpine plants, Alpine Bistort is slow growing, with an individual leaf or inflorescence taking 3-4 years to reach maturity from the time it is formed." From Wikipedia.
"The flowers are white or pink in the upper part of the spike; lower ones are replaced by bulbils. Flowers rarely produce viable seeds and reproduction is normally by the bulbils, (which fall from the plant). Very often a small leaf develops when the bulbil is still attached to the mother plant. The bulbils are rich in starch and are a preferred food for Rock Ptarmigan.... As with many other alpine plants, Alpine Bistort is slow growing, with an individual leaf or inflorescence taking 3-4 years to reach maturity from the time it is formed." From Wikipedia.
- Keyboard shortcuts:
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest comments - Subscribe to the comment feeds of this photo
- ipernity © 2007-2024
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter
Sign-in to write a comment.