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Montana Outdoors
You’re becoming the peak saxifrage authority!
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Comment by aarontheisen — April 18, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
I guess. About the same as the definition of an “expert” as someone who knows a little about the subject at hand, but lives over a hundred miles away.
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Comment by montucky — April 18, 2014 @ 9:41 pm
That’s because you’re famous now!
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 18, 2014 @ 10:17 pm
I suppose so. It demonstrates the vast emptiness of fame.
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Comment by montucky — April 18, 2014 @ 10:24 pm
You’re too modest!
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 18, 2014 @ 10:25 pm
Not really. I now know slightly less than when I began the search.
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Comment by montucky — April 18, 2014 @ 10:45 pm
Amazing little flower!
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Comment by centralohionature — April 19, 2014 @ 4:28 am
It is very strange, and very hardy. Very different from the other saxifragae that I’m seen.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:37 am
I can see the resemblance of our saxifragas’s, but this one is naked!
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Comment by bentehaarstad — April 19, 2014 @ 4:33 am
It’s different enough that I took me several years to first identify it.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:37 am
Memory is a great thing when it works! That’s an unusual little flower.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — April 19, 2014 @ 5:24 am
Yes it’s very unusual. Lots of things going on with it.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:38 am
Haha, that means you’re now an accepted authority on Saxifrages! The world bows to your Saxifrage knowledge! 🙂 Gorgeous photos, especially the first one.
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Comment by Jo Woolf — April 19, 2014 @ 5:59 am
Who knows how Google works. There was a very stiif wind coming off the river that day but the plant is so sturdy it stood pretty still.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:40 am
Nice to see these photographs of a flower most folks have never heard of.
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Comment by Malcolm R. Campbell — April 19, 2014 @ 6:23 am
It doesn’t get much attention, probably because most overlook it . It really takes a close look to see all of its features and doesn’t have large showy petals like other flowers.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:42 am
I think nidifica was coined to mean ‘makes nests.’ I guess each flower could be seen as a sort of nest. Nice closeup.
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — April 19, 2014 @ 6:59 am
I could see a nest shape in some of the various phases of the blossoms. Hadn’t thought of it though.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:43 am
Highly amusing, Terry.
It’s a great photo anyway. Remarkable detail and focus on that first shot. It such an attractive little flower and most unusual in shape.
(would you believe that’s the way I found many names to put to my flower archives – from turning up an image on my own blog from 3 years ago). I’ve still got about 20 flower images to identify yet.
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Comment by Vicki — April 19, 2014 @ 7:01 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one! I’ve found over 200 different species of wildflowers in the approximately 1500 square miles through which I wander, and from year to year I can’t remember all of them. I did compile a file of over 800 photos for a wildflower website that published them and I often refresh my memory from that collection.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:47 am
Interesting where the information we post goes. I’m always amazed when I run across something of mine in a place I would never have expected to see it. I’m sure you feel the same.
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Comment by anniespickns — April 19, 2014 @ 7:13 am
Yes, and sometimes I review the viewing activity from the WordPress stats and see activity on some very old posts that must be the result of searches.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 7:50 am
That is so funny I was just talking about this on my latest blog post Terry, to me the photography is easy it is the identification that is so hard, great shots btw !!
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Comment by Bernie Kasper — April 19, 2014 @ 8:45 am
Yes, the identification can be really hard. I think even more so here where there are so few people that few things are published specifically for this area. I use primarily a book that was published in British Columbia and a website at the U of Washington in Seattle.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2014 @ 4:38 pm
What a little charmer that wildflower is … I trust this was not followed by another five feet of snow … 🙂
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Comment by Teresa Evangeline — April 19, 2014 @ 5:21 pm
Strange little flower, isn’t it! Ironically, there is snow forecast for here on Wednesday. Probably nothing mush in the valleys, but up to 4 inches up higher.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2014 @ 7:15 pm
I remembered the name from last year, though not the appearance of the flower. Saxifrage sounds a bit like Saxon to me. It certainly does look like it would fit right into a castle’s landscape. The nest reference is interesting, too. It’s just a strange little flower.
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Comment by shoreacres — April 19, 2014 @ 6:40 pm
The saxifrage family has a varied collection of flowers and I seem to find a new one about every year. I found one today that I must have always overlooked, probably because this on is very tiny. They do have some very pretty members in that family!
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2014 @ 7:18 pm
Funny! Good thing you are a knowledgeable source.
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Comment by Sue — April 19, 2014 @ 10:33 pm
I wish I were much more knowledgeable, but I’m afraid it’s my more my nature to explore and find things than to study them in detail.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2014 @ 7:19 pm
You know you have an internet presence when everything points back to you 🙂
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Comment by Candace — April 20, 2014 @ 10:17 pm
I’m afraid that my internet presence mostly involves the existence of obscure things. Doing my part to fill some vacuums.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2014 @ 7:21 pm
Full circle! So cool. 🙂
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — April 21, 2014 @ 7:50 am
Yes, interesting circle, but not helpful for my research. I do think though that some of my posts help others to identify or understand some things.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2014 @ 7:23 pm
Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing them!
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Comment by David — April 22, 2014 @ 8:55 am
Thank you for visiting, David. I’m glad that you enjoyed the photos.
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Comment by montucky — April 22, 2014 @ 8:05 pm
I love this family of flowers
they are so unique, tiny and precious!
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Comment by Tammie — April 25, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
It is a very pretty and interesting family, and I seem to find another member every year. There seems to be no end to our wildflower species!
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Comment by montucky — April 25, 2014 @ 8:06 pm