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Chamaenerion latifolium (Onagraceae)
Chamerion latifolium (the Arctic Riverbeauty or Dwarf Fireweed as it is known in America's) is a typical Icelandic species not growing on mainland Europe and the British isles. It grows in northern America too, though - in the west even as far south as the mountains of California.
It has large pretty flowers. The fruits grow - as in all other willowherbs - under the flowers and are narrowly long shaped. The flowers fall from the fruits at the end of the flowering period leaving the fruits conspicuously behind. Typically it grows on gravel riverbeds all over Iceland.
It is a member of the Willowherb family (Onagraceae). It is also known as Epilobium latifolium.
The Icelandic name of this species is Eyrarrós.
From Natural History of Iceland Site
Massive icebergs floating in Disko Bay provide a backdrop for pink wildflower blooms in the tundra landscape of Disko Island, located above the Arctic Circle in West Greenland. The flowers, known by several names including dwarf fireweed and river beauty, are locally known as Niviarsiaq, the national flower of Greenland. Disko Bay is filled with icebergs of all sizes and shapes coming from the nearby Ilulissat Icefjord, which is speculated to have originated the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
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Another five photos from my archives. I am adding the description that I wrote on a previously posted photo taken on the same outing. I had really hoped that I would be able to finally go for a drive out of the city today. However, the maintenance light came on for an oil change yesterday, after I had been for physio, and I have to wait a week for the earliest appointment. So, no new photos.
"On 10 August 2013, I went with friend Sandy to Bow Lake, in Banff National Park. It is located along Highway 93, the Icefields Parkway, said to be the most beautiful, scenic highway in the world. She had seen a tiny Liverwort (non-vascular plant) maybe a week earlier on a different trip and wanted to go back to check it at a later stage, and asked if I'd like to go with her. How lucky I am! She had hoped that it might be a particular rare species, but as it turned out, it wasn't. Still an interesting species to add to the list of flora and fauna for the area.
We walked very slowly along the Bow Glacier Trail, which runs along the right hand edge of the lake, searching for anything of interest and beauty.
Later in the day, none of the views looked as beautiful as they did in the earlier morning light. We went as far as the second rock fall, but didn't hike up to the Bow Glacier Falls. I had only ever once been to Bow Lake (that I remember), and that was 30+ years ago, but I had always longed to go back."
The Rio Grande River at Colorado Canyon, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Redford, Texas. View large on black
On the Rio Grande River, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas. View large on black.
Texture #12 by H Roach, with thanks.
Contrabando is a faux border village or rancheria created by the film industry in 1985 for the movie "Up Hill All the Way". As more movies began filming there through the years, buildings were added to suit the needs of the particular film. Other movies include Streets of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, The Journeyman, Rio Diablo and My Maria.
It is situated right on the banks of the Rio Grande, which can be seen on the left just in front of the tree line. This is within the Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Another photo from a wonderful day along the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) west of Banff and Lake Louise, on 10 August 2013. Our destination was beautiful Bow Lake, so that my friend could check on a Liverwort (non-vascular plant) that she had seen there recently. The title for this image comes from the colourful plant in the foreground, called River Beauty. There were a few people out taking photos in this area, so it was a bit of a challenge to try and photograph in between them : )
"Chamerion latifolium (formerly Epilobium latifolium) is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the English common names Dwarf Fireweed and River Beauty Willowherb. It has a circumboreal distribution, appearing throughout the northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including subarctic and Arctic areas such as snowmelt-flooded gravel bars and talus, in a wide range of elevations.
This arctic plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber. Every part of this plant is edible, tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty. It is the national flower of Greenland, where it is known by the Greenlandic name niviarsiaq, which means "little girl"." From Wikipedia.
Fjórði og síðasti dagurinn á göngu um Víknaslóðir. Gengið var frá skála Ferðafélags Fljótsdalshéraðs á Klyppstað í Loðmundarfirði, yfir Kækjuskörð og að Þverá í Borgarfirði eystri. Horft inn eftir Fitjum þar sem voru stórar breiður af eyrarrós í fullum blóma.
The last day on a four day trek of Víknaslóðir trails near Borgarfjörður eystri in Iceland. We closed the cirquit by hiking from Klyppstaður hut in Loðmundarfjörður across Kækjuskörð pass to Borgarfjörður eystri. On the way we passed through fields adorned by bright pink eyrarrós (e.River Beauty. l.Epilobium latifolium) in full bloom.
The captures from the trek are in a chronological order in the album Víknaslóðir.
View south along the flowery streambank of north fork Crystalline Creek to an unnamed peak east of Snowman Pass.
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I've often wondered how it is possible that under such adverse conditions, plants still grow.
Taken at the black beach of Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland.
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Land where vegetation cover is 50% or less is often collectively referred to as sparsely vegetated land. Much of Iceland is non-vegetated or only sparsely vegetated, although many lowland regions are being slowly reclaimed. Sandy flats along major rivers and other alluvium account for a significant percentage of sparsely vegetated lowland areas. There is very little vegetation cover in much of the Icelandic highlands, which see little change even with the passage of time. Mosses and lichens are much more common in sparsely vegetated mountainous areas than in sparsely vegetated lowland areas.
Vegetation in these regions is thin and scattered and tends to grow in small tufts and tussocks in sandy or rocky soil. Gravel, stones, sand, clay or boulders cover the ground. The number of species and their composition varies depending on local conditions. Species frequently found in such areas include moss campion (Silene acaulis), thrift (Armeria maritima), alpine mouse-ear (Cerastium alpinum), common mouse-ear (Cerastium fontanum), sea campion (Silene uniflora), northern rock-cress (Arabidopsis petraea), slender bedstraw (Galium normanii), wild thyme (Thymus praecox ssp. arcticus), arctic riverbeauty (Chamerion latifolium), dwarf willow (Salix herbacea), woolly willow (Salix lanata), saxifrages (Saxifraga spp.), field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), lyme-grass (Leymus arenarius), fescues (Festuca spp.), wood-rushes (Luzula spp.) and bentgrasses (Agrostis spp.). Revegetation is being attempted on many gravelly flats and other sites where vegetation cover has been lost, either for exploitation purposes or in order to combat erosion.
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Interesting section of boulders and flow at Sunburst Fall, NC 215, Pisgah National Forest, haywood County, North Carolina. West Fork Pigeon River.
The joys of a solitary winter walk by the river.
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Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney
River Beauty is like a small version of Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), not as tall and with wider, shorter, paler leaves. This plant is also called Broad-leaved Willowherb. River Beauty is particularly known as a pioneer on river bars and stream side terraces. This plant was seen in the Canadian Rockies at Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
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Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. View large on black
Horses are such amazing creatures. Here's the story. At Boquillas Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Mexican Nationals try and earn a living by selling souvenirs at three times less than they sell for in the BBNP shops. They sit across the Rio Grande while their souvenirs sit unattended at the overlook.
When a "customer" comes, this guy mounts his horse, crosses the Rio Grande and risks arrest by Border Patrol. The horse, knowing what is to come, stops to take a drink in mid-river and the "cowboy" grabs a branch off of one of the shrubs to use as a switch. Then the horse races up a near-vertical cliff side to reach the selling ground. Without question, this steed takes his rider to the top, not missing a beat.
Devils Parchment texture thanks to SkeletalMess.
Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney
Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney
Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney
Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney
River beauty (broad-leaved willow-herb) adds some colour to the moraines at Tumbling Pass while Tumbling Glacier tumbles from Tumbling Mountain behind - Kootenay National Park, July 2001
River Beauties, unflirtunately only of the plant variety, were everywhere. Their pleasant sweet smell traveled with me along most of the upper parts of the river.
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” ...... Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mosenthein Island is a wilderness outpost located in the heart of the St. Louis metro area. This Mississippi River island is only approachable by boat at most river levels and is located just downstream of the Chain of Rocks, on the only "non-navigable" stretch of the Mississippi River below St. Paul. The heart of the island is a three mile long bottomland forest with towering cottonwoods, overgrown old fields and vines as thick as your thigh. The head of the island is a vast sand bar, punctuated by deep swimming holes dug by high water.
A group of local river and environment organizations led by artist Libby Reuters wanted to give some love to this island, and to begin to introduce people to this treasure. We had heard stories of a ferry that, in the 40's, shuttled families across the river to Mosenthein for beach parties and sunbathing. We thought we'd recreate this history with a morning of island clean-up, removing tons of floodborne trash from the forest and beaches, followed by a party with an island outpost cafe, beach volleyball and the inauguration of the "3rd Coast Mississippi River Swim Club".
Partners included Big Muddy Adventures, Watershed Cairns, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Open Space Council, the Gramophone, 1 Mississippi, Missouri River Relief, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Our Missouri Waters, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers
Photo by Melanie Cheney