Album Wildflowers

[SteveR]

Lupine were often the show-stealers on last weeks trip to the Castle area, but the usual profuse variety of wildflowers were also found.

 

[Bob]

To dry here .... Not many bloomed

 

[fossana]

I came across this indian paintbrush (Castilleja sp.) yesterday with tiny bracts, new to me. So far unable to ID the species.

 

[SteveR]

We caught the tail end of flower season two weeks ago while looking after lodge operations at Campbell Icefield.

Fading glory in the "Flower Power" meadows.

Anemone, gone to seed.

A pocket of paintbrush.

Colour in a landscape of rock and ice.

Some kind of saxifrage, profuse in damp treeline tundra.

Finding a niche to survive in.

Fire "weed".

Summer's over for this fireweed, though.