Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: plant

Not a great beauty, this is the rather ominously named American cancer-root (Conopholis americana), a plant of the dark woods that spends most of its life below ground parasitizing the roots of oak trees. It emerges as spikes of creamy white flowers that lack both leaves and chlorophyll as it gains all its nutrients from its host. It’s a member of the broomrape family and is native to Eastern Canada and the USA. Apparently, it doesn't harm the oak trees, and lives for only ten years, which is not long in the life of an oak.

I believe that dandelions are representatives of an alien life-form, indestructible by all normal means and intent on taking over the planet.

These lavender coloured pea-like flowers are American groundnuts (Apios Americana) and were found growing as a vine in the sand along the shores of the beach in Oka Park in Quebec. The beans and roots of this plant are highly nutritious and were eaten by native Americans and early settlers.

A rosemary flower. The flowers are small, only a few millimeters, but very intricate.

Solomon's seal, from Don Valley parklands, Toronto. It is a mid-sized woodland plant, about 45cm tall, with curved stems that carry white flowers. It is a relative of lily of the valley and is said to have therapeutic properties.

Virginia Bluebells, a spring flower of the woods, Bestview Park, Toronto. They spread a carpet of blue under the trees.

Trout lily. A spring plant of the forest floor. St Bruno near Montreal. It can take as long as seven years growth before these plants flower. It is said to be called the trout lily because the mottled and flecked appearance of the leaves looks like trout skin. I don't see the similarity myself.

A small yellow plant of the forest floor. This is called perfoliate because the stem carrying the flower appears to grow through the leave (or rather the leave grows around the stem). St Bruno near Montreal.( Uvularia perfoliata )

Red trillium is a common spring plant of the woods. It smells of rotten meat, and attracts flies to pollenate it. It is sometimes called Stinking Benjamin (according to the book, I've never actually heard anyone call it that). St Bruno near Montreal.