I’m hoping someone will know what plant this is. It's growing near the Rideau River. http://imageshack.us/a/img661/3840/pmJzXp.jpg
This link is not working. Could you post the photo here? How to Attach Photos and other files [Edited] I've fixed the link. Thanks to Axel for checking it out by copying it.
If I copy the link it works. Anyways, it's some sort of Gentiana. As the plaits (the whitish fringe at the top) are longer than the corolla lobes, I would say this is a G. andrewsii. These are actually not buds but mature flowers, some species of Gentiana have flowers that remain closed and so they depend on pollinators which are strong enough to force themselves in (e.g. bumble bees).
That looks like the one. Thank you for the reply and for going to the trouble to work with the link. I wasn't able to upload it on my mobile. Interesting about the closed flowers and strong pollinators to get into them. Thanks for the extra information.
