Beauty in the forest
Alkali Cordgrass / Spartina gracilis
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Puffballs
Yellow Mountain Saxifrage / Saxifraga aizoides
An unusual find
Always a delight
Clavariadelphus
Indian Paintbrush
Thesium / Thesium arvense
Tufted White Prairie Aster / Symphyotrichum ericoi…
Forest floor
Contrasts
Black footed polypore
Bunchberry berries - fall is on its way
Sacred Lotus / Nelumbo nucifera
Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
Polypore
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Beetle
One of my favourite fungi : )
Very large Artist's Conk / Ganoderma applanatum
Juvenile Swainson's Hawks
Little dancers
Just for the record
Alpine Bistort / Polygonum viviparum
Mayfly on Echinacea
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk / Accipiter cooperii
Kananaskis Lakes
My little angel
Slime mold on moss
Underside of Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus
Lovely while it lasted
Orange Hawkweed / Hieracium aurantiacum
Ruddy Duck / Oxyura jamaicensis
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Arctic Willow
Golden Dung Fly / Scathophaga stercoraria
Early Blue Violet / Viola adunca
Creepy crawlies - Willow Leaf Aphids?
My first truly wild Skunk
After a long, long wait
Insect galls on a Willow leaf
Lichens on Plateau Mountain
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Bird's-foot Trefoil / Lotus corniculatus


It's so unfortunate that this beautiful member of the Pea family (Fabaceae) is considered a weed. It is grown as a crop and has spread to various places. Introduced from Eurasia, it can be found (if you know where to look) growing along roadsides and on waste areas. I think I've only ever seen it in about four or five places, though. It blooms from June to September. The plant was named for the arrangement of the long, narrow seedpods/legumes, which resemble a bird's foot. A handful of us had driven past a colourful roadside display two days ago, and I just had to go back yesterday on my way home from Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, to grab a few (macro) photos.
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