High summer wildflowers

The Cowichan Valley's hiking trails are everywhere with views galore. They also show a wide variety of wildflowers. 

In this post I like to share a few of them. Some of them are not really wildflowers at all, but all of them were photographed in the wild.

Asters

Many years ago I found that if they grow on your property they love a little TLC to make a massive show.

Gumweed

This one belongs to the aster family as well.

Monkeyflower

very pretty and showy.

The same goes for Yellow Toadflax.

Red Chickweed

That is what Google tells me.

Bridewort

Bird Vetch

A string of very little flowers, common enough, but it needed googling for the name.

Hollyhock

It shows up in fancy country gardens as much as in the wilderness

St John's Wort or Hypericum

This is a native variety. It gets quite tall. Another variety of Hypericum is used as a groundcover in landscaping but the flower is then a lot larger and not on tall stems. Both varieties are beautiful and flower around the same time.

Meadow Rue

Google helped me on this one and hopefully I got it right.

Hollyhock close up

Hairy little beauties, aren't they?

fuchsia

Finding this on the side of an abandoned railroad was a surprise.

Pearly Everlasting

Tansy

Queen Anne's Lace

These last three and the following are perhaps the most common or the most noticed around here. They grow in abundance along roads, railroad tracks, forest clearings, and other open spaces.

Chicory

The flowers look like they are stuck on the sides of tall stems/

A fancy thistle

Threeleaf Foamflower

Very pretty, and I hope the name is right. It needed to be googled.

When hiking so many more flowers come under foot, too many to photograph, but that is a good reason to go out more often and keep on shooting.

My phone is the camera I use nearly all the time.