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Perhaps the only active Purple Martin house in Calgary. Credit to Andrew Barnes.

Colony Farm, Coquitlam, BC, Canada

First year rosette. The leaves are not as sharply-toothed as on second year flowering plants, but they have the same unpleasant scent.

Photo by Claude Savoie. Approximate location near Ruxton Island, Gulf Islands, BC, Canada

Feeding on Echium vulgare.

lemmas with broad, square, hyaline margins

Fish Creek Provincial Park, SW Calgary, AB, Canada.
Big Backyard BioBlitz, July 28 – August 1, 2022.

Yellow dot on pronotum of the female. Marais de la Rivière aux Cerises, Magog, Quebec, Canada

This bird has taken up residence in the airport, so they've protected the sculptures with plastic and added a sign explaining what's going on.

Agoseris lackschewitzii; wet subalpine meadow.

Dark green, pointed phyllaries, a couple of flagged tips on uppermost cauline leaves.

Female flowers only on this plant.

On ridge

On subalpine slope. Elevation 2,080 m.

On subalpine slope. Elevation 2,080 m.

-white form of Small-flower Beardtongue

On talus slope

Talus slope

Talus slope. All the flowers have large nectar droplets at the base of the stamens. I only noticed that when I looked at the pictures more closely.

Montane slope

Growing on trail

At edge of trail through montane forest

Winter white and an exceptional hunter.

In fen

In fen

In boggy/swampy spruce forest

Observed on Twinflower.

On sandy trail in dunes

Uploaded with permission from the photographer/observer. Observed on the dam between Canyon Day Use and Peninsula Day Use just beside the solar panel. Travelling across the snow.

In Sphagnum bog

At edge of pond

On gravel by highway

One of two similar, green-scaled weevils accidentally introduced to North America from Europe.