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Permalink Reply by Marianne on July 3, 2012 at 6:26pm

Quebec flowers

Tussilage (Tussilago farfara)

Trille blanc (Trillium grandiflorum)

Trille rouge

Érythrone d'Amérique (Erythronium americanum)

Sanguinaire du Canada (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Muguet

Pissenlit

Marguerite

L'iris versicolore (Iris versicolor Linné)

Épervière

Cerisier

Érable

Thé des bois

Orchidée sabot de la Vierge (Cypripedium acaule)

Orchidée (Cypripedium parviflorum)

chosen by Marc; some of his favorite Québec flowers

Permalink Reply by Davy on July 3, 2012 at 6:53pm

Muguet looks the same as Lily-of the-Valley. Does it have a sweet fragrance?

Pissenlit looks similar to dandelions. Does it have heavily indented leaves?

The last two look like a flower I bought once in Auss many moons ago. We knew them as either  slipper purse or Purse Slipper. 

The Marguerite Daisy was a favourite of my mothers and had them growing in her garden.

Amazing how flowers get spread around the world. 

Permalink Reply by Marianne on July 3, 2012 at 7:38pm

These were not supposed to be spread around the world but I guess in the same climatic and environmental conditions the same flowers have evolved.  And yes pissenlit is dandelion; the last two are orchids (there are many many types of orchids and yes the first one is slipper purse... and lily of the valley is muguet...

Permalink Reply by Marianne on July 12, 2012 at 11:52pm

Some things have gotten spread around the world because , of the colonial era, I believe, like rats and sparrows that are seen a lot in North American are not indigenous to it.