Common Tansy / Tanacetum vulgare
Back-lit Goat's-beard
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Beauty of a weed
Bird vetch / Vicia cracca
Meadow Goat's-beard / Tragopogon pratensis
Invasive Goat's-beard and Baby's breath
Goat's-beard with visitor
Katydid on Common Tansy
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Goat's-beard
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Black Henbane
Common Tansy / Tanacetum vulgare
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
Spotted Knapweed - PROHIBITED NOXIOUS
The dreaded Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
Barberry
Fall colours of Common Tansy
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Black Henbane seedpods
My favourite Thistle
White Campion, male
The beauty of an invasive weed
Tall Hedge Mustard / Sisymbrium loeselii
Goat's-beard
Common Barberry, Berberis vulgaris
The inspiration for Velcro
Canada/Creeping Thistle
Beauty and beast
Misleading beauty
Watch out for its stranglehold
Bee on Baby's breath
Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
Nodding Thistle
Lovin' the light
Hoverfly on Sow Thistle
Hound's-tongue
A beautiful but invasive weed
Deceptive beauty
At least someone likes Goat's-beard
Invasiveness
Goat's-beard
Snow-covered tresses
Skipper on Creeping Thistle
Vibrant weed
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Butter-and-eggs / Linaria vulgaris
Oxeye Daisy / Leucanthemum vulgare
Little dancers
Bird's-foot Trefoil / Lotus corniculatus
Bull Thistle / Cirsium vulgare
Oxeye Daisy bokeh
Tall Buttercup
Amazing beauty
Oxeye Daisy / Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Meadow Goat's-beard / Tragopogon pratensis L
Bluebur
Two non-natives
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense
Common Burdock / Arctium minus
Nodding Thistle / Carduus nutans
Scentless Chamomile / Matricaria perforata
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Nodding/Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
The large Nodding or Musk Thistle is my favourite species of Thistle. Unfortunately, this quite spectacular and beautiful species is on the list of Restricted, Noxious, and Nuisance Weeds In Alberta. It is a biennial that spreads rapidly by seed forming extremely dense stands, though when I have seen this species growing in several places within the city, there are usually only a few of them. Yesterday, though, I saw how, if left, these Thistles can spread.
I finally got out on a botany walk yesterday afternoon, 25 July 2017. The smoke from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires has cleared, it was a lovely sunny day, and at last the destination was a place to which I could drive. Also, I knew that this would not be a very long walk and it was all on the level. I was hoping that there would at least be a few of these thistles growing. Most of the flowers had died, but I still love those spine-tipped, inner and outer bracts. The flower itself is a beautiful pink/purple. I have added a previously posted photo showing a flower in its prime, in a comment box below.
www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2011/08/carduus-nutans.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carduus_nutans
This photo was taken at the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area, not far from downtown Calgary. It is the richest botanical area, for its size, within the city. Over 385 species have been recorded in an area of about three hectares. (All of Fish Creek Provincial Park has only about 460 species). Eighty species, however, are aliens, now occupying 90+% of the area. It is such a shame to see how the area is being devastated by plants that include Baby's Breath, Creeping Thistle, Yellow Clematis and other invasive species.
I finally got out on a botany walk yesterday afternoon, 25 July 2017. The smoke from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires has cleared, it was a lovely sunny day, and at last the destination was a place to which I could drive. Also, I knew that this would not be a very long walk and it was all on the level. I was hoping that there would at least be a few of these thistles growing. Most of the flowers had died, but I still love those spine-tipped, inner and outer bracts. The flower itself is a beautiful pink/purple. I have added a previously posted photo showing a flower in its prime, in a comment box below.
www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2011/08/carduus-nutans.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carduus_nutans
This photo was taken at the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area, not far from downtown Calgary. It is the richest botanical area, for its size, within the city. Over 385 species have been recorded in an area of about three hectares. (All of Fish Creek Provincial Park has only about 460 species). Eighty species, however, are aliens, now occupying 90+% of the area. It is such a shame to see how the area is being devastated by plants that include Baby's Breath, Creeping Thistle, Yellow Clematis and other invasive species.
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