Iced Up Broadleaf Lupine Leaf
Snow Lake trail
Broadleaf lupine with frost on the leaves
boardwalk over a soft area, Sowlake trail. MRNP
Harsh Paintbrush
Paintbrush in Mt Rainier National Park
Avalanche lilies in Spray Park, Mt Rainier
Avalanche Lilies, lower Spray Park, looking down the trail, MRNP
How is that for a bouquet?
Spray Park. Paintbrush, broadleaf lupine, mountain daisy's (Astors), lousewort and bistort not quite in bloom (red upright pods)
Bog gentilian
Broadleaf lupine, Harsh paintbrush anda stalk of bistort not yet in bloom
Pippsissiwa
Low-growing and normally drooping downward, this pippsissiwa was pointing up, so I did not have to lay on the ground to shoot the inside of the flower
Pipsisaewa
Rarely have I noted more than a few pipsissewa plants. Hundreds lined the trail to Owyhigh Lakes
Red Columbine
Owthigh Lakes trail
Columbine
Mouse-on-a-stick, the seedhead of the pasqualflower
Skunk Cabbage
Early season plant
Open to suggestions, these are tiny 1/2" buds
Mountain Heather
Western coralroot, Kendall Katwalk, close to trailhead
lupine and sitka velarian
Fields of wildflowers cover the Ridge
Springbeauty
Rampart Ridge area
Hillside above the trail to Rampart Ridge
Lupine and bistort
Hillside above a trail to Rampart Ridge,
Bistort, Lupine and golden daisey
Lupine and bistort near Rampart Ridge
Crimson columbine
Oxeye Daisy
Columbia Lewista
Bunchberry
Queen Cup
Possibly edible thistle or St Mary's thistle
Red or crimson columbine
Penstemon
Bear Grass
Rosy Spiraea
Denny Creek area
Columbia (tiger) Lily
Columbia (tiger) lily
Tiger Lily
Trillium. As it ages, the color shifts from white
Trillum- Older Bloom
Glacier Lily, Lake Melakwa trail
Glacier Lily
Trillium
Early bloomers. Not unusual to see them pop up from the snow
