lcarreau - Nov 30, 2007 12:01 pm - Hasn't voted
Status on the plant -It looks most like Broad-Leaved Willow Herb or Arctic Fireweed. The scientific name is Chamaenerion latifolium.
tanya - Dec 1, 2007 9:17 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Status on the plant -This is from Alaska! I doubt any of us know what this one is? --- if this is the one you were asking about?
lcarreau - Dec 1, 2007 10:03 pm - Hasn't voted
To tell you the truth,I don't know a whole lot of folks currently living in Alaska; and I'm not about to go up there. It's one of those MOMENTS when you take a photo of a plant, and then it gets LOST in a vast pile AND suddenly REAPPEARS! Don't worry ... somebody will come up with a confirmation soon. Guess a 4x4 comes in quite
handy in your neck of the woods. Each day can be a real adventure. Have a good one, tanya!
mtybumpo - Dec 3, 2007 12:16 pm - Voted 10/10
Red!That sure is a lot of red! Great Picture!
lcarreau - Dec 3, 2007 12:45 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Red!Yep, it was one of the photos that I found on the bottom of the PILE. They apparently get
a little bit more SNOWPACK & moisture in ALASKA than they do in ARIZONA. Hey, thanks for the kind comments & beautiful pictures!!!
lcarreau - Dec 6, 2007 10:02 am - Hasn't voted
I respect a person'sfeelings, but you really don't have to feel that way. I guess all this flower is now is a
mysterious image floating around in Cyberspace. Kinda like a "RED raft" bouncing down the Colorado River. Someday, it might resurface along the western shore of Lake Mead, like a nostalgic piece of driftwood without a NAME.
What? Up late again? Gee, Anya ... perhaps you should take a "red-eye" FLIGHT to ALASKA, and maybe explore the plant's environment. You might even discover some Reindeer. Ha,ha!
Thanks for your persistence!
bobeck - Jan 9, 2008 10:22 am - Voted 10/10
Couldn't figureout how to score it a 12!
lcarreau - Jan 9, 2008 6:54 pm - Hasn't voted
Thank you, Bo !I dug it up from some western Alaska photos
I had taken 12 years ago. Since then, the
friend I was visiting moved back to Arizona.
A lot can change in 12 years!!! (You wanted
to give it a vote for each year I was holding it, right???)
Hey - be safe on those Utah highways.
RobSC - Jan 12, 2008 12:08 am - Voted 10/10
Never Seen Anything Like ThisI guess I've got to get up to Alaska some day. Great Photo!
lcarreau - Jan 12, 2008 12:24 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Never Seen Anything Like ThisThanks, how's things going over there in Boulder? I have to get over to the Colorado
Rockies, someday. Is it snowing up a storm?
RobSC - Jan 12, 2008 12:42 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Never Seen Anything Like ThisIt did for several weeks, but has been quiet recently out of the mountains (The mountains are getting snow as I write still). At the end of December there had been so many storms that some of the flatirons above Boulder formed really thin ice routes on them, although I seem to have gotten too old for that sort of stuff....
lcarreau - Jan 12, 2008 12:50 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Never Seen Anything Like ThisThat sounds awesome, I bet somebody out
there is enjoying them! We don't have
too many flatirons here in Arizona.
SteveOs - Jan 12, 2008 2:14 am - Voted 10/10
It's Definitely FireweedFireweed stalks and leaves turn red in the fall after the purple flowers drop. We have fields and fields of it up here in B.C. :)
lcarreau - Jan 12, 2008 9:38 am - Hasn't voted
Thanks, SteveOs !Just your average American guy! I keep forgetting that BC is up there! Think we all
know where Victoria is, however. Fireweed was
my original guess -I didn't take the photo in
fall, but it was close enough in Alaskan time. "Close enough" only counts in hand
gernades and horse shoes, right? Thanks for
the information - you are the lucky winner!!!
Can't wait for those Vancouver Olympics coming up...
Karrar Haidri - Apr 30, 2008 11:39 am - Voted 10/10
Wow ! ! !What a wonderful picture! Very nice colors.
Cheers
lcarreau - Apr 30, 2008 1:55 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Wow ! ! !Karrar, thank you very much for your
kind words! I was lucky to be in the
right place at the right time. Nature
holds many surprises, all we have to do
is look and say WOW. - Larry
wmeier - Nov 10, 2008 11:34 pm - Hasn't voted
My FavoriteFireweed is at the top of my list for wildflowers. Very beautiful especially in such numbers. Thanks for sharing!
lcarreau - Nov 10, 2008 11:44 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: My Favorite1996 was a very good year for Fireweed in
western Alaska. Thanks for the comments!
Larry
Malibu - Aug 10, 2009 3:14 pm - Voted 10/10
More scientifically...sort of?Is it a form of this (from Wikipedia):
Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, as well as northeast Asia.
Maybe not.
Another great photo, btw, whatever the flower is.
lcarreau - Aug 10, 2009 8:17 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: More scientifically...sort of?I'm not a scientist, but you have an outstanding point!
Prairie-fire would be more synonymous to
Canada and Western Alaska ???
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