2 delicate white blossoms with light yellow pistils, hang among pointed green leaves spattered with raindrops.

#Wildflower #Prosartes #ColurADay #GreenSat Fairy Bells (Prosartes hookerii) a native plant of the forest understory. Early June when all the green is still fresh looking.

A low growing herbaceous plant with alternate lanceolate leaves and a terminal cluster of pendant white flowers.

#Prosartes hookeri, Hooker's Fairy Bells
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Prosartes hookeri, fairybells. Wikipedia says, "the inflorescence at the tips of branches produce one to three drooping, hanging flowers which may be hidden in the cover of the large leaves. The flower is bell-shaped with six white to green veiny tepals and six protruding stamens with large anthers". Here we're seeing the cluster of flowers from the side, and several of the much larger leaves are in the frame.

Prosartes hookeri, fairybells. Same cluster, viewed from "in front", that is, the stem is receding away from us.

Prosartes hookeri, fairybells. A different cluster, wet from rain. The petals become more and more transparent as they get soaked. Here we can see an ant up inside the bell of one of the flowers, presumably after nectar.

Polemonium pulcherrimum, jacob's ladder. Rather surprisingly these were growing by the side of the road with no apparent reason to have been planted there, an anomalous patch of blue. We're near ground level, looking straight on into a periwinkle blue flower with purple rays coming form the yellow "eye" in the center. There are many more flowers in all states of development all around it.

BC spring flowers.
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