Yellow Owl-clover / Orthocarpus luteus

This Yellow Owl-clover plant (macro shot) and several others were growing on the canyon floor at Horseshoe Canyon. They like dry prairie grassland, flowering June-August. The stems are 10-40 cm tall, with a spike terminal cluster of tiny golden yellow flowers (10-15 mm long). Stem surface is covered in sticky hairs. Native to Alberta, and uncommon. Annual. Semi parasitic. There are 25 Orthocarpus species worldwide, only this one in Alberta.