Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Pink family

We see this very small plant within the city, but I happened to take this macro photograph at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, SW of Calgary, on 30 June 2012. Ths plant belongs to the Pink family, Caryophyllaceae.

Actually, the reason I took this photo was because I felt really bad when I pulled a thin blade of grass out of the way so that my camera didn't focus on it instead of the flower - and I accidentally picked the flower! It was so pretty, and I thought it would show up against the gorgeous blue sky we had that day. This is Chickweed, but not the Mouse-eared Chickweed. It seemed to be a different kind (with a somewhat sticky stem below the flower), but I can't remember the name. Doug, LOL??? Taken at Nose Hill.

We saw several small clumps of this very colourful Moss Campion high up on the Ptarmigan Cirque Trail in Kananaskis last weekend. This plant is a member of the Pink family and grows in alpine meadows and scree slopes, June-July.

We saw this plant at the Reader Rock Garden yesterday, but it does grow in the wild, too. It had hailed a short while before, and the water droplets were still on some of the flowers.

We found this garden escapee growing in the "wild" in North Glenmore Park the other week. Also known as Rose Campion. Not a very inspiring photo, but I did want one image of this flower included in my Plants of Alberta Set. I like the white ray pattern and the tiny "crown" in the centre. The colour is really pretty, too.