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Here is a partial list of the
wildflowers and plants we commonly see on our hikes. Late July and early August are the
height of the wildflower season; however, there are a number of gorgeous flowers showing
off their beauty in the spring, including some orchids and lilies. Plants Good in Any Season
Common trees: trembling aspen, balsam poplar, Englemann spruce, subalpine fir,
lodgepole pine, alpine larch (incredible around the third weekend in September when they
turn gold!)
Less common trees: white birch, whitebark pine, douglas fir, western red cedar,
hemlock, yew
Shrubs: three kinds of juniper, willows, bog birch, slide alder, gooseberry, high bush
cranberry, 3 kinds of honeysuckle, mountain ash, red-osier dogwood, Canada buffaloberry,
Labrador tea, 3 kinds of mountain heather, kinnikinnick, grouseberry, false azelea, white
rhododendron
Flowering plants: clasping-leaved twisted stalk, false hellebore, cow parsnip, western
anemone, western meadowrue, dwarf dogwood,
May / June / Early July
- wood lily
- avalanche or glacier lily
- queen's cup
- star-flowered false Solomon's seal
- star-flowered Solomon's seal
- yellow lady's slipper orchid
- calypso orchid
- spotted orchid
- coralroot orchid
- spring beauty
- mountain buttercup
- globeflower
- Drummond's anemone
- evergreen violet
- sweet coltsfoot
Late July / Early August
- mountain death camas
- sparrow's egg lady slipper orchid
- northern twayblade
- green bog orchids
- tall white bog orchid
- valerian
- alpine bistort
- alpine willowherb, river beauty and fireweed
- bladder campion
- moss campion
- stonecrop
- foamflower
- mitrewort
- spotted saxifrage
- fringed grass of parnassus
- white mountain avens
- blue clematis
- yellow columbine
- various vetches and hedysarum
- common butterwort
- Rocky Mountain fringed gentian
- common harebell
- self heal
- Lyall's penstemon
- shrubby penstemon
- elephant's head lousewort
- brachted lousewort
- alpine, red and yellow paintbrush
- alpine speedwell
- western stickseed
- Lyall's scorpionweed (he was everywhere in the mountians!)
- One-sided, pink, single-flowered and green wintergreen
- twinflower
- Hooker's thistle (a great favourite of the painted lady butterfly!)
- alpine and pink and wooly pussytoes
- pearly everlasting
- yarrow
- various arnica species
- triangular-leaved ragwort (or groundsel)
- various fleabanes (purple, gold and white)
Late August and September
- valerian
- northern bedstraw
- yellow mountain saxifrage
- Rocky Mountain fringed gentian
- common harebell
- single-flowered wintergreen
- various goldenrods
- various groundsels
- various asters
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