Totally misleading, as any macro or supermacro shot is! This beautiful Kalm's Lobelia flower (and others) was found when botanizing Elkton Bog, near Cremona, on 30th July. This was a new plant for us, so we were excited and happy : ) Unfortunately, my camera turned the blue into a pale purple!
"Lobelia kalmii is a species of flowering plant with a distribution primarily across Canada and the northern United States in temperate and boreal regions. It was formerly known as Lobelia strictiflora (Rydb.) Lunell and has a variety of English names including Kalm's lobelia, Ontario lobelia and Brook lobelia. Lobelia kalmii is a small plant (10 - 40 cm) of wet environments such as bogs, wet meadows, and rocky shorelines, including wet alvars, where it grows in calcareous soil or cracks between limestone rocks. It has small (1 cm) blue flowers , with a white center and has thin upper leaves and spatulate basal leaves. It starts flowering in July, lasting into September." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobelia_kalmii
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.... as Engelbert Humperdinck sang in 1985 (but not my kind of music!).
We saw about three of these little Wood Frogs at Elkton/Cremona Bog on July 30th last year, all of them very dark, so presumably they are Dark Phase/Dark Morph species? This little one allowed one of us (not me!) to hold him gently so that a few photos could be taken, to add to our botanizing day records. I'd never seen a Dark Morph before - didn't even know there was such a thing. Wood Frogs are only 30 to 60 millimetres (about one to two inches) in length. Thanks, little guy, for helping us learn new things : )
"Coloration varies from pink-tan, gray, olive-green, various shades of brown, to almost black; whitish jaw stripe contrasts with a dark eye mask that extends from the nostril over the eye and just behind the ear; light dorsal stripe is frequently present" From fanweb.ca/resources-services/alberta-natural-history/amph...
The following link goes to a short, fascinating video on YouTube, about how Wood Frogs freeze solid in the winter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjr3A_kfspM
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This is a supermacro image of these tiny, red seedpods belonging to the Sticky False Asphodel wildflower. When they have turned bright red, they make a pretty splash of colour on a nature walk - if you happen to notice them, as they are very small (reddish-yellow, oval capsules, 5-6mm long). These seedpods were found while on a day of botanizing Elkton Bog, near Cremona, north west of Calgary on 30th July.
www.mountainnature.com/plants/PlantsLatinNameResult.asp?I...
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I think I have the correct ID for this plant. Photographed on a day's botanizing at Elkton Bog, north west of Calgary, on 30th July.
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A small, uncommon Fringed Gentian, (macro) photographed at Elkton Bog, near Cremona (north west of Calgary) on 30th July last year.
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