Fireweed, a wildflower

Beautiful! Veta, I'm sure glad you are back to posting your beautiful pictures!

the first time I ever saw fireweeds was in Alaska, lately I've started seeing them around here. Wonder if they are spreading all over?

What a lovely hotel and setting!

These bees were tiny, and their legs covered in pollen.

Nicole, is that the Dakotas? Sure looks like it!

A display in a miniature train museum in Romania. My son and his girlfriend set the museum up last year.

Karen UK

joan_mn.....no. Colorado. I'm sure they're a herd being raised for slaughter....

Military Tattoo, Edinburgh Castle

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Ron

I think Ron is making these flowers up. :-)

LOL Susan......I've seen that wildflower before, can't remember the name but this is a unique angle of it.

Casey and Joan...
wildflower...nope... WEED! LOL amazing what
different regions consider weeds. That sucker is
hard to keep control of. I think it is the official
Alaska wildflower. Down here we consider it a weed.
Although I always have some in the gardens. lol

Ohh, come come now Kat. It's a nice plant :o)
There is so much you can do with it: wonderful honey from flowers (and I hate taste of honey), tea from tops, alchogolic drink from roots.
Young shots can be used as salads, older as cooked vegies. The cattle likes it too.
Depending on preparation you can use it to heal: from STD to nerves ;o).
All in all: peach of a weed. And gorgeous to boot.

Nicole, I am so embarassed. I didn't even notice those mountains in the back ground, don't see many of those in the Dakotas! The Black Hills, but not mountains!

One of my nephew's jump pictures.

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casey_nfld, the way you photographed it demonstrates nicely why it's named fireweed.

It's one of my favorite wildflowers, grows along the roads here.

I always love looking at the pics everyone posts here, great shots.

Susan,..if only I had that much imagination.

It's a lousewort; genus is Pedicularis. I'm not sure of the species. I found it growing above the treeline in the mountains of Wyoming so it may be more stunted than in a friendlier environment. This one was only about 3 to 4 inches tall. Perhaps P. rostratocapitata or P. sylvatica.

Great skydiving picture.

Ron

More mountain goats at the Goat Lick area of Glacier National Park.

Been out of town all day so coming late to the table.

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Jodi-