A favorite wildflower.

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  1. Kildale

    Kildale Nature's Window

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    I really like this flower, if you look at the left side you will see why it has the common name, Elephants Head.

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    Elephants Head flower ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
     
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  3. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Elephant's head/Lousewort/Pedicularis Groenlandica is certainly a beautiful, showy plant (it belongs to the Figwort Family - Scrophulariaceae.) I can see why you like it so much Kildale. The flowers really do look like little Elephants heads. :-D
     
  4. Droopy

    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    Very nice. :D Lots of wildflowers are really beautiful once you get close up and personal with them.
     
  5. Netty

    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Wow! What a cool looking plant!
     



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  6. Kay

    Kay Girl with Green Thumbs

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    What a beautiful flower! This is another plant I am not familiar with.(a gardener can always learn something new ;) )
    I'd like to see what the foliage looks like too.
     
  7. gfreiherr

    gfreiherr Young Pine

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    WOW...very unique. I like it.
     

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