Summer.

The flowers here do not grow in showy masses as they do in the mountains.  The roses have been wonderful.

Here they are with a few paintbrushes.

And here with one of the three species of Potentilla I have so far found.

A dominant weedy shrub is the silver-leafed wolf willow.

It has small greenish blossoms that give off a heavenly scent.

The other flowers are mostly scattered and small.

Priarie buttercup.

Lance-leaved stonecrop.

The first fireweed is blooming along the river.

Introduced species thrive: such as this yellow hawkweed.

One gem I found in the forest.  It is the only specimen I have so far seen.  It is a pyrola, or winter-green, but I am not sure of the species (my books are all packed because of the half-finished interior.)  At first I thought it was P. chlorantha, which grows at Nuk Tessli, but I now think it might be P. grandiflora, which I have never seen before.  So that would be exciting.

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