Heart-leaved Alexanders

Heart-leaved Alexanders. That's a new prairie wildflower for me — and if I didn't have my flower guides, I might wonder if these tiny yellow composite flowers were instead perhaps related to dill weed or even a kind of goldenrod.

Flowerhead of Heart-leaved Alexanders   © SB 

I don't know why there is an s at the end of the name... Alexanders... Perhaps if I knew Latin it would make sense?

And yes, I do know that the name for this yellow prairie wildflower is all about the leaves, not the flowers — but the lower leaves of this plant were so-deep in the Saskatchewan mosquito zone that I opted to disturb neither flora nor fauna for a photograph... But I did look closely at them, and identified the heart-shaped lower leaves, and the upper leaves that are more like three leaflets at the top of the stem.


Prairie Wildflower: Heart-leaved Alexanders
Location: Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Photo Dates: July 7, 2014.

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