White Camas / Zigadenus elegans

A macro shot of a very small, individual White Camas flower. I love the ring of tiny green hearts around the flower centre. A number of these flowers grow together in a flower cluster at the top of a long stem. This native plant was growing at Cobble Flats, off Elbow Falls Trail (Highway 66), south west of the city, in Kananaskis Country, on July 12th.

"White camas (Zigadenus elegans) is a native perennial herb that grows from a bulb. The plant can be found across most of Canada from British Columbia to New Brunswick and in parts of northwestern Canada. The plant contains several steroidal alkaloids, including zygacine, which can poison livestock and humans. White camas has caused poisoning in sheep and may have been involved in poisoning cattle. Ingesting the bulbs can also cause poisoning. This plant is considered to be about seven times less toxic that death camas (Zigadenus venenosus)."

www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/ppack.info?p_psn=79&p_type=all&...

Has anyone ever had to access someone else's e-mail account? One of my good friends in England suggested that maybe I can get access to my brother's Hotmail account, in order to see if there are some contacts of his whom we aren't aware of and whom we should perhaps inform of his death. I did a bit of research on Google and it doesn't sound too promising with Hotmail, as it is a free system. Not sure I'd want to give out a copy of things like my driver's license without being sure just who I was giving the information to, either. In theory, though, it does sound a good idea.