Album Wildflowers

We caught the tail end of flower season two weeks ago while looking after lodge operations at Campbell Icefield.
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Fading glory in the "Flower Power" meadows.
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Anemone, gone to seed.
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A pocket of paintbrush.
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Colour in a landscape of rock and ice.
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Some kind of saxifrage, profuse in damp treeline tundra.
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Finding a niche to survive in.
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Fire "weed".
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Summer's over for this fireweed, though.
 
fossana said:
I came across this indian paintbrush (Castilleja sp.) yesterday with tiny bracts, new to me. So far unable to ID the species.

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minor var. exilis? Ackerfield: "Annuals; bracts and calyx mostly green with just upper 1/3-1/4 red-tipped". Occurs in S Utah (usually near drainages/moist areas). If it's not linariifolia that's probably it...
 
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Brendan S said:
minor var. exilis? Ackerfield: "Annuals; bracts and calyx mostly green with just upper 1/3-1/4 red-tipped". Occurs in S Utah (usually near drainages/moist areas). If it's not linariifolia that's probably it...
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Obviously different inflorescence morphology and family, but from a distance the size of the flowers resembled a Chrysothamnus. They were that small.
 
SteveR said:
We caught the tail end of flower season two weeks ago while looking after lodge operations at Campbell Icefield.
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Fading glory in the "Flower Power" meadows.
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Anemone, gone to seed.
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A pocket of paintbrush.
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Colour in a landscape of rock and ice.
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Some kind of saxifrage, profuse in damp treeline tundra.
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Finding a niche to survive in.
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Fire "weed".
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Summer's over for this fireweed, though.
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Wow!!
 
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