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Photos from CypressHills-CentreBlock on 2007may23:
sign: Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park me: and CypressHills sign Moose: droppings Baneberry=Actaea rubra: plant Baneberry=Actaea rubra: flowers Joanie: park-naturalist + Doris valley: in CypressHills Sparrow-egg ladyslipper=Cypripedium passerinum: emerging Sparrow-egg ladyslipper=Cypripedium passerinum: emerging habitat Mule-deer: Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: plant Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: flower Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: flower Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: plant in bud Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: buds Lodgepole pine=Pinus contorta: Lodgepole pine=Pinus contorta: cone Purple larkspur=Delphinium nelsonii: plant Purple larkspur=Delphinium nelsonii: flowers Purple larkspur=Delphinium nelsonii: flower closeup Hailstorm: approaching Cavalier: adorned with hailstones Bald butte: highest point in centre-block Bald butte: darker Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: with hailstones Mountain shootingstar=Dodecatheon conjugens: with hailstones Spring beauty=Claytonia lanceolata: flower Spring beauty=Claytonia lanceolata: with hailstones Spring beauty=Claytonia lanceolata: plant Spring beauty=Claytonia lanceolata: flower Crocus=Anemone patens: with hailstones Crocus=Anemone patens: with hailstones Purple larkspur=Delphinium nelsonii: in bud with hailstones Fairy bells: in bud Clematis=Clematis columbiana: flower Alum root: leaves Baneberry=Actaea rubra: plant Lodgepole pine=Pinus contorta: habitat Mountain ladyslipper=Cypripedium montanum: emerging Mountain ladyslipper+Striped coralroot: emerging Striped coralroot: emerging Striped coralroot: emerging Heart-leaf arnica=Arnica cordifolia: plant Heart-leaf arnica=Arnica cordifolia: flower Heart-leaf arnica=Arnica cordifolia: plant Calypso: clump Calypso: flower Calypso: habitat Calypso: flower with spotted apron Calypso: flower with spotted apron Calypso: leaves Calypso: leaf closeup Purple larkspur=Delphinium nelsonii: clump Pronghorn antelope: going under a barbed-wire fence Pronghorn antelope: trotting Pronghorn antelope: standing Cavalier: mud-bespattered
- the emerging plants in photos 10765, 10769, 10771 were identified as Pinesap by Joanie the park naturalist, but Doris and I think she erred, that those plants are Corallorhiza striata (striped coralroot).