Alpine Forget-Me-Not
 Photo by
John Fisher |
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I was fortunate to find these
beautiful little flowers among the rocks as I hiked to a falls in Kananaskis
Country near Banff, Alberta. I focused on one batch of flowers and
missed the others, showing the forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris)
in its natural setting. but missing the splendor of the many little clumps
that surrounded the rocks. When the flowers first bloom they clump together,
but as they mature they lengthen into one-sided racemes. The Borage
family of flowers is distinguished by the alternate leaves, five united
petals, five stamens and a four-part ovary. In addition to forget-me-nots,
Borage family members include bluebells, popcorn flowers and hound's tongues.
In the forget-me-not each wheel-shaped, azure corolla has a prominent yellow
eye. This particular forget-me-not photo is dedicated to my sister,
Elaine, who never forgets me.
 February 16, 2001 |
