{"id":8524,"date":"2013-08-02T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2013-08-02T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:43:24","slug":"alpine-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Alpine wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s walk through alpine meadows (altitude between 2100 and 2260 metres) produced a feast of wildflowers and hundreds of images. Already shown was the <a title=\"Pink Mountain Heather\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8514\">Pink Mountain Heather<\/a>; here are a few more.<\/p>\n<p>The Harebell\u00a0was easy to identify as it is also found in the valleys.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8525\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/harebell130730s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although distributed over a range, the average altitude for the Yellow Columbine\u00a0is about 1900 metres.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8526\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yellowcolumbine130730as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The striking seed head of the Western Anemone\u00a0has earned many nicknames: towheaded baby, old man of the mountains, hippy on a stick, shaggy head, moptop.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8527\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/westernanenome130730s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Leafy Aster is being visited by a bumble bee (<em>Bombus melanopygus)<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8528\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aster130730s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Sitka Valerian is visited by a checkerspot butterfly (<em>Euphydryas anicia ssp<\/em>).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8529\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sitkavalerian130730s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the approach to the trail through the alpine flowers, a Red-tailed Hawk sat atop an Engelmann\u00a0Spruce&#8212;replete with cones&#8212;as if it were the guardian of Elysium.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8531\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/redtailedhawk130730s2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tuesday&#8217;s walk through alpine meadows (altitude between 2100 and 2260 metres) produced a feast of wildflowers and hundreds of images. Already shown was the Pink Mountain Heather; here are a few more. The Harebell\u00a0was easy to identify as it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8542,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}