Some pics from a hike a couple of weeks back (July 17), Lineham Ridge in Kananaskis Prov. Park, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies...I guess planting alpines brings a little bit of this home.


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Androsace chamaejasme, Sweetflowered androsace:



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I've never seen bigger clumps of alpine forget-me-nots! Myosotis alpestris:

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Golden fleabane, Erigeron aureus:



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From the streamside on the way up, Cypripedium passerinum, Sparrow's egg orchid:



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The usual color of Penstemon confertus:



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I believe these pale purpley and pink ones were different color forms of P. confertus, not P. procerus or other species...what do you think?

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Bracted lousewort, Pedicularis bracteosa:



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Townsendia parryi, Parry's Townsendia:



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Saxifraga bronchialis, spotted saxifrage:



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Potentilla nivea, snow cinquefoil:




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Oxytropis splendens, showy locoweed:

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Another hike tomorrow!