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Posted: 10 Jul 2013

Taken: 06 Jul 2013

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A ring of hearts

A ring of hearts
One of my favourite wildflowers to photograph, with its beautiful ring of tiny, green hearts. Too many flowers on a cluster, though, so it's not easy to get an individual flower without any bits of side stems, buds, etc. in the way. Ha, I was in a hurry taking this one, too, as the sky was black and we thought we were in for a thunderstorm at any moment! Taken while botanizing the hillside that belongs to the Leighton Art Centre, SW of Calgary, on 6 July 2013.

Sorry, everyone, I forgot to add the name of this small flower! It's Zigadenus elegans / Mountain death camas, White camas. Belongs to the Lily family. The green, heart-shaped parts are the nectar glands.

www.mountainnature.com/plants/PlantsLatinNameResult.asp?ID=9&LatinName=Zigadenus+elegans&fCommonName=Mountain+Death-Camas

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 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Not sure what this 6-petal flower is Anne, but it looks like the flower of a Green Cabomba (NA Native) ... but that has yellow-ish hearts near the stamen area(??) and the petal shapes are different ... excellent macro of this one!!

cfb.unh.edu/phycokey/Choices/Anomalous_Items/Aquatic_macrophytes/submerged_leaves/CABOMBA/Cabomba_02_600x506_newsroom.nt.gov.au.jpg

or an Ornithogalum Flower species (??)

Haha, think I found it ... maybe a Zigadenus elegans (aka Anticlea elegans, Alkali Grass, Mountain Death-camas), which is a rare wildflower ... a good find!!

www.acc.umu.se/~wschedin/foxy13/gron-blom-gard-07-07-25.jpg
11 years ago. Edited 11 years ago.
 Jan
Jan
Gorgeous!
Seen in Beautiful Flowers
11 years ago.
 Puzzler4879
Puzzler4879
I love this shot, seen and enjoyed in www.ipernity.com/group/beautifulflowers.
11 years ago.
 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Well Done!!
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Pond!!
11 years ago.

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