Spreading Dogbane

Macro shot of these attractive little Spreading Dogbane flowers, taken on the hillside at the Leighton Art Centre, on 6 July 2013. Three of us spent the morning there, SW of Calgary, recording all the flora and fauna that we came across.

"A 2-5 ft. widely branching, bushy, perennial with opposite, oval leaves and small groups of tiny, pink, bell-shaped flowers near the branch tips. The flowers’ fragrance is reminiscent of lilac. Numerous small pink, nodding, bell-like flowers, fragrant and striped inside with deeper pink. Milky juice exudes from broken stems and leaves.

These plants are relatives of the milkweeds."

www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=APAN2

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