Wildflowers of Calgary and Southern AlbertaFrance Royer and Richard Dickinson have created a great field guide for everyone who has ever wanted to know the name-or the story-of a wildflower. Perfect for your pocket, pack or glove box. Concise, readable descriptions accompany glorious colour photographs of more than 100 Alberta species, found from Red Deer to the Montana border, Banff National Park to the Cypress Hills. |
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50 cm tall achene alternate leaves anemone aspen forests Aster balsam poplar bark basal leaves beard-tongue berries Blackfoot bladderwort bloom from June blue bracts bright-yellow Calgary Canada catkins chokecherry closely related species clover cm long cm wide colour common name compound leaves contains Cree Cypress Hills disc florets dry capsule eaten edges of aspen edible Family female flowers flavour flower heads flowers appear flowers white flowers yellow found throughout Alberta Fruit appears golden bean grass-of-Parnassus greyish green habitats hairs hairy height June through August June through July KANANASKIS COUNTRY km² KNOW leaf axils leaflets leaves simple lobed loco-weed meadow rue mountain numerous Nutt open areas opposite leaves pappus petals prairie grassland prickly prominent veins Pursh ray florets red-osier dogwood roots sepals SIMILAR SPECIES Solomon's-seal southern Alberta SPECIES A closely spruce stamens stem grows terminal clusters throughout southern Alberta toadflax waste areas whorl wild wintergreen woods woody yellow flowers