The woods around our rental house near Banff were not full of huge wildflower meadows or anything, but once I started noticing them there were SO MANY different kinds of flowers! I loved finding them and trying to see if they were like the wildflowers I know here in Utah. (Some were, some weren't, but there are a lot of flowers I don't know, so that doesn't really mean much.) I thought this one above might be a type of mint, but now I think it's Splitleaf Hempnettle. I guess that makes sense because mint and nettle often look alike.
I took pictures of all the different flowers I could find and I'm putting them here because…I guess just because I love them. Here they are—at least 18 kinds, if you don't count the berries. I got a book from the library about Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, but I still don't know what all of these are called.
For scale—that's clover. So this little red flower really is quite tiny. It looks like berries! I think it's Leafy Goosefoot.
I can't tell what this one is. It's closed too tightly!
Bird vetch? Or some kind of vetch.
Maybe Common Mullein? But it doesn't seem big enough.
This is some kind of berry, maybe Thimbleberry—they were all around in the woods, and I kept hoping we would see a bear eating them! Some of the people who'd signed the guest book before us said they'd seen bears. (And I know if we'd actually SEEN a bear I maybe would have been scared. But that didn't keep me from hoping for it.) But no, no bear sightings. I guess I should be glad we at least saw one in Jasper.
Thistle! Ouch.
Rose hip from a wild rose.
Clover, of course.
I'm pretty sure this is yarrow; we have this too. Closed—
—and open.
Sweet little daisies!
A little pinecone. Doesn't technically fit in this post as a flower, I guess, but I'm counting it. Pinecones are kind of the "flowers" of pine trees, you know, since they hold the seeds. In fact I remember reading that Maine's official state "flower" is the pinecone!
Goldenrod. Don't know what kind, specifically.
The flower in my book that looks most like this one is Common Death Camas. But I hate to think it's called THAT! I hope it's Curly Dock instead.
These are berry-ish, too. But I think they might be the tightly closed buds of Pearly Everlasting.
Possibly Euphrasia Pectinata? The common name is "Eyebright," isn't that cute?
Bunchberry. It's a kind of dogwood (my Nana loved dogwood!) It will have bright red berries later—
like these!
Red clover.
Leafy aster
This looks like some kind of cinquefoil—we have it in our mountains too. It could be Shrubby cinquefoil?
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