Saturday, July 27, 2013

A few flowers from the Olympics

 Erythronium oregonum (White Fawn Lily), one of thousands that pop up as soon as the snow covering the ground melts.  We were either walking on snow or flowers and in the distance, the fields of white were almost indistinguishable.

 Llium columbianum (Tiger Lily), fairly rare while hiking but easy to spot with it's magnificent orange color.

I call this little guy 'persistence' but as close as I can tell from this tiny specimen it is Penstemon davidsonii (Penstemon) .  One of  many tiny flowers growing all alone on rock, covered with snow 8 months out of the year.  Amazing.

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