Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Spreading Dogbane

Macro shot of these attractive little Spreading Dogbane flowers, taken on the hillside at the Leighton Art Centre, on 6 July 2013. Three of us spent the morning there, SW of Calgary, recording all the flora and fauna that we came across. "A 2-5 ft. widely branching, bushy, perennial with opposite, oval leaves and small groups of tiny, pink, bell-shaped flowers near the branch tips. The flowers’ fragrance is reminiscent of lilac. Numerous small pink, nodding, bell-like flowers, fragrant and striped inside with deeper pink. Milky juice exudes from broken stems and leaves. These plants are relatives of the milkweeds." www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=APAN2 www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/9260200177

Photographed on 3rd August along the Marston Creek trail, Kananaskis. This native plant grows in dry, sandy areas and open forests, June-August. It has small, very attractive, cup-shaped flowers (6-9 mm long). A member of the Dogbane family. "The milky juice of this plant yields a type of latex and several attempts have been made to grow Spreading Dogbane commercially for the production of rubber. The Blackfoot used the milky juice as a shampoo to make their hair shiny." From "Plants of Alberta" by Royer and Dickinson.