[NatureNS] Showy Lady's Slippers & Purple Avens?

Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:43:01 -0300
From: Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>
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We were at Smiley's Park yesterday afternoon, and checked out the Showy 
Lady's Slippers.  They are not yet in bloom, and there are only a few 
buds, which are still white, so it will be awhile.  Looks like the usual 
time of around July 1 will be about right,  There was another wildflower 
which I didn't know in bloom in the same area as the Lady's Slippers.  
They were about 2 ft. tall, with small globular flower heads in a 
combination of yellow and purple - most unusual.  Sepals reddish purple, 
short petals inside sepals yellow, sometimes with purple veins.  I guess 
it must be Purple Avens or Old Man's Whisker's (Geum triflorum), but the 
leaves didn't look quite like the illustrations in my books.  I have 
some pictures I could send, if anyone would like to have a look at them 
and identify them.

Lois Codling

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