Wild Flowers in a Wild Land

Wild rose

Rosa acicularis

Alberta's official flower

Late May - Early August

pink lady slipper

Venus' Slipper or FairySlipper

Calypso bulbosa

Delicate and rare

Mid May

ladysslipper

Yellow Lady's Slipper

Cipripedium calceolus

Late May - June

Franklin's Lady's Slipper

Franklin's Lady's Slipper

Cypripedium passerinum Richards

Late June - Mid-July

Spotted orchid

Spotted orchid/round leaved

Orchis rotundifolia (orchid)

Mid-June - Early July

Forget-me-not

Forget-me-not

Myosotis alpestris (borage)

Late June - July

Old-man's Whiskers

Old-man's Whiskers/
Three-flowered avens

Geum triflorum (rose)

Mid-May - June

Elephant's head

Elephant's head/Little elephant

Pedicularis groenlandica (figwort)

Late June -Early August

Chickweed

Chickweed/starwort

Stellaria

May - August

Windflower

Windflower

Anemone multifida (buttercup)

Late May - Late June

butterwort

Butterwort

Pinguicula vulgaris (bladderwort)

June - July

Twin flower

Twin flower

Linnaea borealis (honeysuckle)

Late June - Late July

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's-ladder

Polemonium pulcherrimum (phlox)

Late May - Mid-July

Drummond's Anemone

Drummond's Anemone

Anemone drummondii (buttercup)

Early June - Mid-July

blue-eyed grass

Blue-eyed grass
Sisyrinchium montanum (iris)
June and August

pink wintergreen

Common Pink wintergreen/Pyrola

Pyrola asarifolia (wintergreen)

Mid-June - Mid-August

Greenish-flowered Wintergreen

Greenish-flowered Wintergreen

Pyrola chlorantha

Late June

One-flowered Wintergreen

One-flowered Wintergreen/Single delight

Moneses uniflora (wintergren)

Late June - Late July

Yellow Montain Avens

Yellow Montain Avens

Dryas Drummondi Richards

Mid-June - Mid-July

Parsnip (Parsley)

Zizia aptera

Late May

moss_phlox

Moss phlox

Phlox subulata

Late May

saskatoon

Saskatoon (Serviceberry)

Amelanchier alnifolia

Late May

Lungwort (bluebell)

Mertensia paniculata (Borage)

Late May - Late July

harebell

Common Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

June - September

pink

Mountain Pasque Flower

(Western Anemone var.)

Anemone Occidentalis

Late May - June

prairie_crocus

Prairie Crocus (Pasque flower)

Anemone patens (buttercup family)

March - May

False Solomon's seal

Smilacina racemosa

Mid May - Mid June


Early blue violet
Viola adunca
Late April - Early July

Bunchberry

Cornus canadensis

Early June - Late July


Everlasting

Antennaria

Mid May - Early July

Arnica

Arnica

Late May - August

wood lily

Wood lily

Lilium philadelphicum

Mid June - Mid July

Yellow columbine

Aquilegia flavescens

June - Early August

Kinnikinnik (Bearberry)

Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi

(flower detail inset)

Early May - July

buffalo_berry

Canadian Buffaloberry
(soopolallie or soap-berry)
Shepherdia canadensis
May (shrub)

labradortea
Labrador Tea
Ledum Groenlandicum
Early June - Early July


Broad-leaved willow-herb
Epilobium latifolium
Mid May - Early July


Fireweed
Epilobium angustifolium
Mid July - Late August

baneberry

Baneberry

Actaea rubra (buttercup)
Late May - June


Wild strawberry
Fragaria virginiana (Rose)
Early May - Late July

arrowhead

Arrowhead balsam root
Balsamorhiza sagittata
Mid-May - June

brown-eyed

Brown-eyed Susan
Gallardia aristata
Early June - September

bergamont

Wild Bergamont
Monarde fistuleuse
Mid-July - Mid-August

paintbrush

Red Paintbrush
Castilleja miniata
Mid-May - Late August

sticky geranium

Sticky Geranuim
Geranium viscosissimum
Late May - August

white geranuim

Wild White Geranium
Geranium richardsonii
Late May - Early July

sweet clover

Common Sweet Clover

Yellow and White

June - September

larkspur

Tall Larkspur
Delphinium glaucum

July - August

Wolf Willow

Wolf Willow/Silverberry

Elaeagnus commutata (oleaster)

Late May - Late June

Blue-green Willow

Scouler's Willow

Salix scouleriana

Late May - Late June

clematis
Blue clematis

Clematis occidentalis (buttercup)

Late May - June

mountain avens

White Mountain Avens

Dryas octopetala

Seen at treeline on Moose Mountain, June 21

cow parsnip

Cow Parsnip

Heracleum lanatum Michx.

July - August

Not to be confused with Hog weed., These monster plants can grow over 2m high with 30 cm wide leaves

 
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