Fireweed, going to seed

Late August. It's almost the end of the season for wild flowering plants. Fireweed still carries a few blooms at the top of the spikes, but the air is full of flying seeds.

Long seed pods, pink and green.

Curling, almost ripe. A few seed starting to escape.

And away they go!

Seen at Snakehead Lake.

Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon

Salsify, Bull Canyon

Seed parachutes, ready to fly, and empty seed head.

This is a common roadside weed all across the Chilcotin. The yellow flowers open in the early morning, and close in the afternoon.

(These plants hybridize readily. This could be Western Salsify, Tragopogon dubius, but I am dubious about this because the flowers don't quite match the Wikipedia sample.)