Maximilian Sunflower
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Just a few more weeks
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I love Dandelions
Early Blue Violet / Viola adunca
Early Yellow Locoweed
Sticky Locoweed / Oxytropis borealis var. viscida
Striped Coralroot
Smooth Blue Beardtongue, Penstemon nitidus
Blue-eyed Grass
Early Blue Violet
Arrow-leaved coltsfoot / Petasites sagittatus
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Shootingstar
A colourful rocky spot
Wild Strawberry
Long-fruited Wild/White Prairie Parsley / Lomatium…
Canada Violet
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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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Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
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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
Creamy peavine / Lathyrus ochroleucus
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
Before they go to seed
Arrowleaf Balsamroot with Crab Spider
Yellow Lady's-slipper
The dreaded Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
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Summer joy
Yellow Lady's-slipper
Narrowleaf Stoneseed
In all its purple glory
Pinedrops with bokeh
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
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Yucca seedpods
Taken on Saturday, 21 September 2013, when friends Sandy and Janet and I joined a group of people from Medicine Hat College to drive a long way across the prairie in SE Alberta to an area called the Pinhorn Grazing Lease. Yucca plants, which are not found in Alberta, had been discovered there and were being closely monitored. They spent a few hours counting every single plant and clone, how many new clones, how many old ones, how many seedpods and how many tiny exit holes from a certain insect were in each pod. It was interesting to find quite a few Seven-spotted Ladybugs huddled inside some of the older, more open pods that had split. Most of the plants were in enclosed "cages", the largest of which could be entered. The GPS location was recorded for every plant, and careful notes were made. Very tedious work, and I commend everyone for doing this. Have to admit that I wandered the area with my camera, photographing the plants in various stages and the surrounding scenery. We were so lucky because two of the plants were in a second bloom, whereas all the other plants had seedpods. Couldn't get a decent photo of the flowers, as there were just too many old stalks in the way, but I did add one to my album for the area ages ago. It was a treat to be able to see Yucca flowers, and a surprise for the folks from the College. We aren't sure how these plants got where they are, but it's possible that they were brought north by Native Americans. We were very close to the border with the US and could see the beautiful Sweetgrass Hills rising from the flat prairie in the distance. A very interesting day for us and one that we were so lucky to experience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
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