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Common baby's breath - amazing ability to spread along the Sask/Alberta border

1/27/2016

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The above photos were taken in late summer, 2015 near the Saskatchewan border along Highway 7 there, and along Trans Canada Highway 1, just inside the Saskatchewan border in roughly in the same longitude as the others.
The amount of the common baby's breath was breathtaking, there and at a gravel pit nearby, but...
when I traveled by the same location at Flaxcombe in January of 2016, mid winter, and in the same location, there was only one dead baby's breath still standing!!!
All the other dead baby's breath were gone except one plant in the middle of the field shown above, and also there were none standing in a gravel pit area near this location where the edges also were loaded with baby's breath.
In both locations, there were none left, except one plant!
WHERE DID THEY GO?
I know how they went, but I don' know how far all of the hundreds of mature dead plants blew away.

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