Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Common Wildflowers of Canada?

The flowers in Canada are not so different from the ones at the cabin, yet in many ways they are quite different.

Indian Paintbrush, for example.  We have seen many that are the same orange color as those in New Mexico.  But we have also seen bright, bright red ones, and these maroon ones.  


The yellow potentilla flowers look just like those in my garden in Kansas.  Except the flowers are three times the size.  


We recognized the heather because we had seen a lot of it in Denmark.  No heather in Kansas nor in New Mexico.  But there are several different colors of heather here.


The white yarrow is exactly the same, as are raspberries.  But the bearberry, or kinnikinnik, is a large bush.  In New Mexico, it is a ground cover kind of thing with red berries.  There is a lot of kinnikinnik in our campground in Jasper.  They had three bears here last night.  Yikes!  Don't want to get too close to the kinnikinnik.

My wildflower guide has been helpful here, but somehow I don't suppose something named Common Wildflowers of Northern New Mexico would sell well in Canada.

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