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Narrowleaf Stoneseed
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Yucca seedpods
Maximilian Sunflower
Goat's-beard
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I love Dandelions
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Sticky Locoweed / Oxytropis borealis var. viscida
Striped Coralroot
Smooth Blue Beardtongue, Penstemon nitidus
Blue-eyed Grass
Early Blue Violet
Arrow-leaved coltsfoot / Petasites sagittatus
Shootingstars / Dodecatheon
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Shootingstar
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Wild Strawberry
Long-fruited Wild/White Prairie Parsley / Lomatium…
Canada Violet
A beautiful display of Elephant's Head
Mother Nature at her best
Indian Paintbrush
A splash of colour
Against the cabin wall
White Campion, male
My favourite Thistle
One-sided Pyrola / Orthilia secunda
Fireweed - for a change of colour
Dwarf Dogwood
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A beautiful display of Fireweed
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Yellow Penstemon
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Fall colours of Common Tansy
Eye-catching Fireweed
Similar to a Dandelion
From pale to vibrant
Like rays of sunshine
Moss Phlox
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Purple Avens
Ice crystals on Prairie Crocus
Brrr ... shiver
Early Blue Violets
Prairie Crocuses covered in water droplets
Night-flowering Catchfly / Silene noctiflora
Growing at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Sparrow's-egg Orchid
Bird's-eye primrose / Primula mistassinica
Arrow-leaved Coltsfoot / Petasites sagittatus
Silene sp
Hawkweed
Butter-and-eggs
Looking towards Bow Glacier and Bow Glacier Falls
Drummond's Thistle
White Prairie-clover
Shootingstar
Woundwort / Stachys pilosus
Crab Spider on Richardson's Geranium
The electric shock look : )
Delicate Harebells
Sunny Gaillardia
Star-flowered Solomon's Seal
Crab Spider on Gaillardia
Is this an Orsodacnid Leaf Beetle
Prickly Rose
Heart-leaved Arnica
Beauty in miniature
Prairie Gentian
Hoary Plantain
Grouseberry
Scarlet Mallow
Paintbrush
Wild Lily-of-the-Valley
Common Labrador Tea
Mealy Primrose
Low Larkspur
Mountain Shootingstar
A rare, wild beauty
Pygmy-flower
Sagebrush Buttercup
Face to the sun
Roseroot
Common Knotweed
Tall Buttercup
Sparrow's-egg Orchid
Northern Grass-of-Parnassus
Fairybells
Goldenrod
Tartarian Honeysuckle
Blazingstar
Bracted Honeysuckle
Campion
One-flowered Wintergreen
Asparagus
Wandering Daisy, Erigeron peregrinus
Bracted Lousewort
White Mountain-avens
White Cinquefoil
Roses AND diamonds
Three-flowers Avens
Sticky Locoweed
Pygmy-flower
Mountain Shootingstar
Leafy Musineon
Aster versus Fleabane
Still waiting ..
Bishop's-cap
Marsh Hedgenettle
Bird's-foot Trefoil
Skullcap
Bracted Honeysuckle
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Pinedrops with bokeh
Spent an amazing four day (three night) road trip down to SE Alberta with two friends, from 20-23 September 2013. Our furthest destination was Elkwater in the Cypress Hills, but we did a lot of driving all over the SE part of the province. All new territory to me, so I was extremely lucky to get this chance. We were all thrilled to bits to be taken to see these Pinedrops, which none of us had ever seen before, by a delightful young woman. We had met her the previous day, on a trip with people from Medicine Hat College to see and monitor an area of Yucca plants growing in the wild. The tallest Pinedrops plant that we saw was just over 1 metre tall! Unfortunately, we were too late to see the plants in bloom.
"The visible portion of Pterospora andromedea is a fleshy, unbranched, reddish to yellowish flower spike (raceme) 30-100 cm in height, though it has been reported to occasionally attain a height of 2 meters. The above-ground stalks (inflorescences) are usually found in small clusters between June and August. The inflorescences are hairy and noticeably sticky to the touch. This is caused by the presence of hairs which exude a sticky substance (glandular hairs). The inflorescences are covered by scale-like structures known as bracts. The upper portion of the inflorescence has a series of yellowish, urn-shaped flowers that face downward. [4] The fruit is a capsule.
Like all members of the Monotriopoidiae (see Monotropa), Pterospora andromedea lacks chlorophyll (trace amounts have been identified, but not enough to provide energy for the plant or to color it).[5] Plants exist for most of their life as a mass of brittle, but fleshy, roots. They live in a parasitic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi, in which plants derive all their carbon from their associated fungus, but the relationship is not yet well understood. The term for this kind of symbiosis is mycoheterotrophy." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterospora
"The visible portion of Pterospora andromedea is a fleshy, unbranched, reddish to yellowish flower spike (raceme) 30-100 cm in height, though it has been reported to occasionally attain a height of 2 meters. The above-ground stalks (inflorescences) are usually found in small clusters between June and August. The inflorescences are hairy and noticeably sticky to the touch. This is caused by the presence of hairs which exude a sticky substance (glandular hairs). The inflorescences are covered by scale-like structures known as bracts. The upper portion of the inflorescence has a series of yellowish, urn-shaped flowers that face downward. [4] The fruit is a capsule.
Like all members of the Monotriopoidiae (see Monotropa), Pterospora andromedea lacks chlorophyll (trace amounts have been identified, but not enough to provide energy for the plant or to color it).[5] Plants exist for most of their life as a mass of brittle, but fleshy, roots. They live in a parasitic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi, in which plants derive all their carbon from their associated fungus, but the relationship is not yet well understood. The term for this kind of symbiosis is mycoheterotrophy." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterospora
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