Flowers (and the odd very low shrub) that I remember and can
identify from our hike. There are others that I remember, but
haven't identified. I have pictures of a few of those so may be
able to identify them later. Not all are identified down to the
species level.
I made a couple of identification errors on our hike - I gave the
names Cloudberry and Milk vetch to Arctic raspberry and Yellow
hedysarum respectively.
Katie, I found a few references to pronouncing botanical names. In particular, how to
pronounce Hedysarum.
Organization:
The common (english) "generic" name is given first followed
by specific modifiers.
I've added other names and comments in parentheses.
[] denotes an introduced species.
For those who like to count, there are 81 entries, some are for more than one species.
| Anemone, alpine | Marigold, alpine marsh |
| Anemone, drummond's | Meadow rue |
| Anemone, western (seed head only) | Mitrewort |
| Arnica, alpine | Orchid, northern green bog |
| Arnica, montane species | Orchid, sparrow's egg (aka Franklin's ladyslipper) |
| Bunchberry | Orchid, tall white bog |
| Buttercup, alpine | Paintbrush, alpine yellow |
| Buttercup, montane species | Paintbrush, many hybrids and other colours |
| Butterwort | Paintbrush, red |
| Camas, white | Parsnip, cow |
| Campion, moss | Partidge-foot, (aka Luetkea) |
| Coltsfoot | Penstemon, elliptical-leaved |
| Coltsfoot, alpine | Pussytoes, alpine |
| Columbine, hybrids with red columbine | Pussytoes, white |
| Columbine, yellow | Ragwort, several species (aka Groundsel) |
| Dandelion, alpine (this is a native) | Raspberry, arctic (I confused this with Baked-apple/Cloudberry at the Headwall campsite) |
| Dryas, white (aka White mountain avens) (Jasper has two species overlapped) | Raspberry, trailing |
| Dryas, yellow (aka Yellow mountain avens) | Rock jasmine |
| Epilobium, common name Fireweed | Saxifrage, Lyall's |
| Epilobium, common name River beauty | Saxifrage, prickly (looks similar to three-point; they overlap in Jasper) |
| Epilobium, several of the small ones | Saxifrage, purple |
| False dandelion, large flowered | Saxifrage, three-point (looks similar to prickly; they overlap in Jasper) |
| Fleabane, showy | Saxifrage, western |
| Gentian, blue-bottle | Sedum, (aka Stonecrop) |
| Grass-of-Parnasus, (fringed and/or common) | Sorrel, mountain (quite yummy; I admit to having a leaf) |
| Grass-of-Parnasus, alpine | Speedwell, alpine (aka Alpine veronica) |
| Grouseberry | Spring-beauty, western |
| Harebell | Starwort, alpine |
| Harebell, alpine | Strawberry, wild |
| Heather, pink (aka red) | Thistle, white |
| Heather, white | Twinflower |
| Heather, yellow (aka green) | Valerian |
| Hedysarum, purple (sweet) (perhaps pale as well, which is a pale pink) | Vetch, alpine milk |
| Hedysarum, yellow (I confused this with Milk vetch on the hike) | Violet, early blue |
| Hellebore, false | Wintergreen, common pink |
| Lace flower, (aka Foam flower, or False mitrewort, or Nancy-over-the-ground) | Wintergreen, one-flowered |
| Locoweed, alpine yellow | Wintergreen, one-sided |
| Locoweed, bladder | Yarrow |
| Locoweed, showy | [Daisy, oxeye] |
| Lousewort, alpine | [Dandelion] |
| Lousewort, western (aka bracted) | |
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