Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: greenish-white

One-sided Pyrola, also named One-sided Wintergreen, is a very tiny plant, found in the forest. Came across this one at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, SW of the city, on 14 July 2014. "A raceme of 3 to 25 flowers on short stalks hanging from 1 side of the arcing stem at the top of the plant. Flowers are about ¼ inch long, creamy white to greenish white, urn-shaped, with several creamy-tipped stamens and a long, stout green style protruding from the center. There is often a scale-like leafy bract where the flower stalk attaches to the stem. One-sided Pyrola is fairly common but may go unnoticed due to its diminutive size. It prefers the mossy floor of forests and bogs. It may form small colonies, spreading via rhizomes." www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/one-sided-pyrola

I checked the website of the Friends of Reader Rock Garden last night, hoping to find this plant included in their images with IDs. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one, so I still don't know what this greenish-white flower is. Taken on 24 July 2013.

These teeny wildflowers are absolutely exquisite! They grow in moist woodlands and are so small that normally a person would never notice them. Each flower stem has 3-10 tiny, greenish white flowers on it. The flower is 5-6 mm (0.197 to 0.236 inches!)across, has 4 or 5 sepals, and 5 petals that are finely divided and branched. I think they look like little snowflakes : ). They are extremely difficult to photograph because they are always found in low light, very low to the ground, and they are so SMALL!

There are so many wildflowers that I just don't have a photo of, or at least a half-decent photo, lol. Sometimes, I think I neeed to start from scratch, beginning with plants that I see reasonably often when out on a walk. An exciting thought, as that would be enought to last me the rest of my days, ha! Anyway, this is a macro photo of a few of the very small flowers (1 cm in diameter) that are on the stem of a Greenish-flowered Wintergreen. Less easy to spot than the more common Common Pink Wintergreen with its very small pink flowers. Taken on the Mt. Everest trail at Kananaskis Lakes on August 7th.. The name of this trail makes it sound far worse than it really is, lol! www.em.ca/garden/native/nat_Pyrola chlorantha.html

This was a new plant for us to see, back on 27th June, when a few of us visited the Purple Spring Sand Dunes near Taber, way down in southern Alberta. "The Small-flowered Sand-verbena has amazing adaptations that allow it to tolerate its arid environment. For example, its extremely hardy seeds can lie dormant for up to three years while waiting for favourable growing conditions. Each seed has two or three thin, papery wings that carry it on wind and water. As a result, this annual is unlikely to be found in exactly the same spot each year. This plant grows to between 20 and 50 centimetres, and has striking greenish-white flowers that tend to open in the late afternoon. As its name suggests, it favours hard-packed, fine sand on level ground, but can also be spotted on slopes and ridge tops of dunes. A species of Western North America, its range in Canada is almost entirely limited to southeastern Alberta. It has been found at only one site in Saskatchewan, just east of the Alberta border. This endangered plant requires drifting sand. Dune stabilization is therefore robbing it of its habitat. So too are alien invasive weeds and other plants, which are flourishing on dunes because the absence of fire and decreased grazing mean less unstable sand. Cultivation around existing populations of Small-flowered Sand-verbena is decreasing its ability to spread naturally." www.naturecanada.ca/parks_nwa_current_suffield_speciesatr...

This is the teeniest of flowers, and it belongs to the Saxifrage family. The stem is between 5 and 20 cm tall and the greenish white flower is 5-6 mm across. There are 4 or 5 sepals (the things that look like petals here), and the 5 petals are finely branched, giving a snowflake appearance. Grows June and July in moist woodlands. Someone out for a walk would most likely never even notice these tiny, delicate flowers, unless they knew they existed in a particular area. They are NOT the easiest of flowers to photograph - tiny, low and growing in low light! I did try, though, didn't I, Doug, LOL?! Most of the plants now only have the 5 sepals left, as the petals have withered and fallen off.