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  • A fly and bee explore a Phacelia flower stalk covered with protruding stamens and pistils. Contact with some species of this genus such as Phacelia crenulata can cause a very unpleasant rash similar to that from poison oak and poison ivy in sensitive individuals, due to the chemical geranylhydroquinone. Photo is from the Dawson Pass Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Gaillardia (or Blanket flower) is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Photo from Baring Creek Valley, in Glacier National Park, in the Rocky Mountains, Montana, USA.
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  • An Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens, or coachwhip) desert plant flowers red, along a dirt road traveled by a camper beneath mountains of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA.
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  • Candy Cane plant (Allotropa virgata) is found in forests of the Pacific Northwest and is dependent on the mycelia of Matsutake fungus, which attaches itself to the roots of trees forming a symbiotic relationship. Its other names include Sugar-stick, Candystriped allotropa, and Barber's Pole. It is in the family Ericaceae (Heath Family). Hike along beautiful Thunder Creek to Fourth of July Pass from Colonial Creek Campground, in Ross Lake National Recreation Area, in the North Cascades mountain range, Washington, USA.
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  • The grass triggerplant (Stylidium graminifolium) is a dicotyledonous plant endemic to and widespread throughout Australia. It has horticultural value as a cultivar because of long flowering period, cold hardiness, and unusual germination requirements that reduce risk of becoming an invasive species. This pinkish magenta blossom blooms in Wilson's Promontory National Park (the Prom), Victoria, Australia.
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  • After pollination, the Dragon Arum plant produces green fruits that later turn red. Photographed on the island of Crete, in Greece, Europe. The purplish-red spathe (specialized leaf or bract) and foul-smelling stench of the dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris, also called dragonwort, dragon lily, or voodoo lily) attracts flies to the base of its erect, flower-bearing spadix. The purple spadix can reach over a meter long. With an odor of dung or rotting meat, the Dragon Arum entices flies deep inside into the bulbous chamber of its spathe where the flowers are actually located. The insects can sometimes get trapped overnight but are later freed, covered in pollen to find other flowers for pollination.
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  • Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe, ghost plant, or corpse plant) flowers bloom in a cradle of ferns in Wallace Falls State Park, Gold Bar, Washington, USA. Unlike most plants, Indian pipe is white and does not contain chlorophyll. It is parasitic on fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, ultimately getting energy from the trees' photosynthesis. It can grow in the very dark understory of dense forest.
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  • Air Plant or cathedral bells (Kalanchoe pinnata in the Stonecrop family, Crassulaceae) is an ornamental garden plant and medicinal herb native to Madagascar, and naturalized in Hawaii. The individual flowers are tubular, 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, enclosed in papery, inflated, green to reddish pink sepals, and have 4 red, narrowly triangular lobes. Starting in Koke'e State Park, the Awaawapuhi Trail descends through rainforest from 4120 feet elevation to drier landscapes at the spectacular valley rim of Nualolo and Awa'awapuhi valleys at 2500 feet. Kauai is in the Hawaiian Islands, USA. Hike 6.5 miles round trip accumulating 1800 feet gain, via lands managed by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). This air plant photo is from the remote Awaawapuhi Trail in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Air Plant or cathedral bells (Kalanchoe pinnata in the Stonecrop family, Crassulaceae) is an ornamental garden plant and medicinal herb native to Madagascar, and naturalized in Hawaii. The individual flowers are tubular, 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, enclosed in papery, inflated, green to reddish pink sepals, and have 4 red, narrowly triangular lobes. Starting in Koke'e State Park, the Awaawapuhi Trail descends through rainforest from 4120 feet elevation to drier landscapes at the spectacular valley rim of Nualolo and Awa'awapuhi valleys at 2500 feet. Kauai is in the Hawaiian Islands, USA. Hike 6.5 miles round trip accumulating 1800 feet gain, via lands managed by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). This air plant photo is from the remote Awaawapuhi Trail in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe, ghost plant, or corpse plant) flowers bloom in Larrabee State Park, near Bellingham, Washington, USA. Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. It is parasitic on fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, ultimately getting energy from the trees' photosynthesis. It can grow in very dark understory of dense forest.
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  • Air Plant or cathedral bells (Kalanchoe pinnata in the Stonecrop family, Crassulaceae) is an ornamental garden plant and medicinal herb native to Madagascar, and naturalized in Hawaii. The individual flowers are tubular, 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, enclosed in papery, inflated, green to reddish pink sepals, and have 4 red, narrowly triangular lobes. Starting in Koke'e State Park, the Awaawapuhi Trail descends through rainforest from 4120 feet elevation to drier landscapes at the spectacular valley rim of Nualolo and Awa'awapuhi valleys at 2500 feet. Kauai is in the Hawaiian Islands, USA. Hike 6.5 miles round trip accumulating 1800 feet gain, via lands managed by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). This air plant photo is from the remote Awaawapuhi Trail in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
    1701HAW-1792.jpg
  • Air Plant or cathedral bells (Kalanchoe pinnata in the Stonecrop family, Crassulaceae) is an ornamental garden plant and medicinal herb native to Madagascar, and naturalized in Hawaii. The individual flowers are tubular, 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, enclosed in papery, inflated, green to reddish pink sepals, and have 4 red, narrowly triangular lobes. Starting in Koke'e State Park, the Awaawapuhi Trail descends through rainforest from 4120 feet elevation to drier landscapes at the spectacular valley rim of Nualolo and Awa'awapuhi valleys at 2500 feet. Kauai is in the Hawaiian Islands, USA. Hike 6.5 miles round trip accumulating 1800 feet gain, via lands managed by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). This air plant photo is from the remote Awaawapuhi Trail in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Waves crash along the scenic peninsula of Laupahoehoe Point County Park, on the Hamakua Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. The plant called Beach Naupaka (Scaevola sericea, synonyms: Lobelia taccada, Scaevola taccada) is native to Hawaii and is also known as Naupaka Kahakai, or Half-flower. Its flower is white or cream usually tinged with purple, pale purple, or tan. According to Hawaiian legends, the one-sided flowers of Beach Naupaka are a symbol of lovers torn apart and never reunited. The corky seeds are buoyant and can remain viable in the ocean for a year as they are carried to new shorelines. The leaves have curled-under edges and are shiny, bright green, somewhat succulent, alternate, and obovate in shape with a broad, rounded tip. The plants are dense, spreading, mounding, thicket-forming shrubs. In Hawaii, Beach Naupaka grows wild along the coastlines and is also used as a landscaping or hedge plant in coastal areas because of salt tolerance and attractive form.
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  • Tobacco plant flowers (genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae/nightshade family), Jamestown Settlement, Virginia, USA. Tobacco is native to the Americas, was used by native cultures by around 3000 BC, and has significantly influenced the political, economic, and cultural history of the United States. Tobacco leaves can be smoked, chewed, or used as a pesticide. Nicotiana, Nicotina (the early plant name), and nicotine (drug chemical) were named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the French royal court of queen mother Catherine de' Medici, who became an instant tobacco convert.
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  • This Ti Plant flower is in the Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle, Washington. The Ti Plant (Cordyline terminalis) is native from Eastern Asia to Polynesia. For many centuries this plant has been used by the Hawaiian people for spiritual and psychic protection. There are approximately 20 species of Cordyline, which is in the agave family, Agaveaceae.
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest.  Hike along beautiful Thunder Creek to Fourth of July Pass from Colonial Creek Campground, in Ross Lake National Recreation Area, in the North Cascades, Washington, USA.
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  • Yucca plant with yellow flowers. We hiked the Palm Canyon Trail to Indian Potrero Trail to Stone Pools, and looped back via Victor Trail, in the Indian Canyons, Palm Springs, California, USA. The beautiful Palm Canyon Trail takes you through the world's largest California Fan Palm oasis. The Indian Canyons are the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
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  • The white flower of a Trillium plant blooms to attract pollinators on Squak Mountain, Washington, USA.
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest. Hike along beautiful Thunder Creek to Fourth of July Pass from Colonial Creek Campground, in Ross Lake National Recreation Area, in the North Cascades, Washington, USA.
    1207CAS-S95_044_Pinesap_Monotropa-hy...jpg
  • Green buds on the massive flower stalk of an agave plant. Surprise Valley Trail, Grand Canyon NP, Arizona, USA.Starting at River Mile 134.5, a portion of our party disembarked our rafts for a hike one way up beautiful Tapeats Creek Trail to the wondrous Thunder Spring and River, across remote Surprise Valley Trail, then down Deer Creek Trail to meet others of our group at The Patio and Deer Creek Falls at River Mile 136.9. This scenic one-way traverse was 8 miles with 2300 feet gain (measured by my smartphone GPS app). Day 10 of 16 days rafting 226 miles down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park.
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  • Beach Naupaka (Scaevola sericea, synonyms: Lobelia taccada, Scaevola taccada) is native to Hawaii. It is also known as Naupaka Kahakai, or Half-flower. Its flower is white or cream usually tinged with purple, pale purple, or tan. According to Hawaiian legends, the one-sided flowers of Beach Naupaka are a symbol of lovers torn apart and never reunited. The corky seeds are buoyant and can remain viable in the ocean for a year as they are carried to new shorelines. The leaves have curled-under edges and are shiny, bright green, somewhat succulent, alternate, and obovate in shape with a broad, rounded tip. The plants are dense, spreading, mounding, thicket-forming shrubs. In Hawaii, Beach Naupaka grows wild along the coastlines and is also used as a landscaping or hedge plant in coastal areas because of salt tolerance and attractive form. Photo is from the end of Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, on the Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
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  • A broad leaf tropical plant climbs a tree at Akaka Falls State Park, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
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  • Pink flowers of Azorella compacta (Yareta or Llareta). Yareta is a tiny, mounding flowering plant in the carrot/parsley family (Apiaceae) native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and western Argentina between 3200 and 4500 meters altitude. Its evergreen perennial leaves form a beautiful mounding cushion with pink or lavender flowers. Photo is from Mayobamba Valley, on day 6 of 10 days trekking around Alpamayo, in Huascaran National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Cordillera Blanca, Andes Mountains, Peru, South America.
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  • Heliconia, also popularly known as lobster-claw, wild plantain or false bird-of-paradise, is a beautiful flower with multi-color bracts and varied flower structure. The leaves resemble those of a banana plant. Heliconias are native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Heliconia, formerly included in the family Musaceae, is now the only genus under Heliconiaceae. Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, near Quito, Ecuador, South America.
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  • A purple flower of a bladderwort (Utricularia genus), a carnivorous plant, blooms in a bog on Key Summit Alpine Walk, along the Routeburn Track in Fiordland National Park, near Te Anau, Southland region, South Island of New Zealand. In 1990, UNESCO honored Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand as a World Heritage Area.
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  • Sotol/Dasylirion leiophyllum plant, in the Chihuahuan Desert, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA. See local plants labeled on the Pinery nature trail at Pine Springs Visitor Center. Hike some of the most scenic trails in Texas in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, near El Paso.
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  • An agave plant grows in highlands farms in the landscape around the Black Sheep Inn (Posada Oveja Negra) sign, in Chugchilan, Ecuador, South America.
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  • Hanging rock mat plant and fern garden in Mohawk Canyon at Colorado River Mile 171.9. Day 13 of 16 days rafting 226 miles down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA.
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  • The yellow-green parasitic plant, Misodendrum punctulatum, grows on the W Route alongside Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, Patagonia, South America. Misodendrum punctulatum is hemiparasitic on various species of Nothofagus, especially on deciduous species like N. antarctica and N. pumilio, but also on the evergreen N. dombeyi and N. betuloides. Misodendrum punctulatum is native to humid forests in the southern half of Chile and the foothills of the Patagonian Andes in southern Argentina, where it grows on trees in shady locations and on south-facing slopes.
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  • A sundew (Drosera genus) carnivorous plant grows in a sphagnum bog along the Wetland Walkway at Clinton Hut, Milford Track, Fiordland National Park, Southland region, South Island of New Zealand. In 1990, UNESCO honored Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand as a World Heritage Area.
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  • Sundew carnivorous plant (Drosera genus) near Burnmoor Tarn in Lake District National Park. England Coast to Coast hike with Wilderness Travel, day 2 of 14: from Eskdale in Cumbria county, we walked to Boot for lunch at a local pub and a visit to a working medieval corn mill, in the United Kingdom, Europe. We then climbed to Burnmoor Tarn, then descended to the hamlet of Wasdale Head. Via minibus we returned to Irton Hall for the second night. [This image, commissioned by Wilderness Travel, is not available to any other agency providing group travel in the UK, but may otherwise be licensable from Tom Dempsey – please inquire at PhotoSeek.com.]
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  • Tropical plant with orange, yellow & green leaves. Allerton Garden, on the south shore of Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Address: 4425 Lawai Rd, Koloa, HI 96756. Nestled in a valley transected by the Lawai Stream ending in Lawai Bay, Allerton Garden is one of five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden (ntbg.org).
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest. Burroughs Mountain Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • Valeriana rigida? plant on Punta Cuyoc pass, Cordillera Huayhuash, Andes, Peru, South America. Day 5 of 9 days trekking around the Cordillera Huayhuash.
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  • Azorella compacta (Yareta or Llareta) is a tiny, mounding flowering plant in the carrot/parsley family (Apiaceae) native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and western Argentina between 3200 and 4500 meters altitude. Its evergreen perennial leaves form a beautiful mounding cushion with pink or lavender flowers. Photo is from Mayobamba Valley, on day 6 of 10 days trekking around Alpamayo, in Huascaran National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Cordillera Blanca, Andes Mountains, Peru, South America.
    14PER-2031_Azorella-compacta_Yareta.jpg
  • A green sotol plant (Dasylirion leiophyllum) emerges from a field of yellow grass on the McKittrick Canyon Trail in the Chihuahuan Desert. Hike some of the most scenic trails in Texas in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, in the Chihuahuan Desert, near El Paso, USA. The park contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas (8749 feet/2667 m). The Guadalupe Mountains are the uplifted part of the ancient Capitan Reef which thrived along the edge of an inland sea more than 250 million years ago during Permian time. Capitan Reef is one of the best-preserved exposed Permian-age fossil reefs in the world. The park also features the landmark peak of El Capitan, along the historic Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line (1857-1861), which carried passengers and US Mail in just 22 days to San Francisco starting from Memphis, Tennessee or St. Louis, Missouri, twice a week. Hiking the ecologically-diverse McKittrick Canyon in Guadalupe Mountains NP is best when fall foliage turns color.
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  • green plant in Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, near Quito, Ecuador, South America.
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  • A clay hen decorates a row of lavender (flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae). Grown at Jardin du Soleil Lavender Farm at the Sequim Lavender Festival held mid July in Washington, USA.
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  • A rare silversword plant (Argyroxiphium genus) blooms in Haleakala National Park, Maui, State of Hawaii, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Mountain snowberry (Gaultheria depressa) plant with red leaves along the Sealy Tarns Track, in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand. In 1990, UNESCO honored Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand as a World Heritage Area.
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  • Agave plant shadow. St. George's Abbey Museum, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
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  • Werneria dactylophylla plant, in Mayobamba Valley, Mayobamba Valley, on day 6 of 10 days trekking around Alpamayo, in Huascaran National Park, Cordillera Blanca (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Andes Mountains, Peru, South America.
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  • A spiny succulent alpine plant grows on the Loma del Pliegue Tumbada trail in Los Glaciares National Park near El Chaltén, in the southern Andes mountains, Argentina, South America. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.
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  • Spherical red fruits of an alpine plant grow on the Loma del Pliegue Tumbada trail in Los Glaciares National Park near El Chaltén, in the southern Andes mountains, Argentina, South America. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.
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  • Alpine plant at 11,000 feet elevation in the Annapurna Range of Nepal
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  • Dracaena deremensis 'Janet Craig Compacta' house plant. Molbak's Garden & Home, Woodinville, Washington.
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  • Shooting Star flower in Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Dodecatheon is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the Primrose family, Primulaceae. The species have basal clumps of leaves and nodding flowers that are produced at the top of tall stems that rise from where the leaves join the crown. The genus is largely confined to North America and part of northeastern Siberia. Other common names are American Cowslip, Mosquito Bills, Mad Violets and Sailor-caps. A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower display. The stamens are thrust out with the sepals bent back. The flowers are pollinated by bees, which grab hold of the petals, buzz their wings, and vibrate pollen off the anthers (buzz pollination).
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  • Purple bee balm flowers, Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Monarda (bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, or bergamot) is a genus consisting of roughly 16 species of erect, herbaceous, annual or perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae.
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  • Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, as well as northeast Asia. These plants are classified in the family Orobanchaceae, and are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Purple-blue lupine and red-salmon colored Indian paintbrush flowers bloom on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae). Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, as well as northeast Asia. Castilleja is classified in the family Orobanchaceae, and is hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs.
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  • Gaillardia, or Blanket flower, is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Saint Mary Visitor Center viewpoint, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • An orange and yellow tulip flower blooms in the Skagit River Delta, Washington, USA.
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • Yellow and white tulip flowers bloom in the Skagit River Delta, Washington, USA between the towns of Mount Vernon and La Conner.
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The White Avalanche Lily is a member of the lily family native to coastal British Columbia and the alpine and subalpine Olympic and Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its flower blooms as snow melts in late spring, in damp subalpine woodlands and alpine meadows, often in extensive patches. In the central Cascades, it often grows mixed with Clintonia uniflora and Trillium ovatum at the lower elevations of its range, and with Anemone occidentalis at higher elevations. Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • Lupine flowers in Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae).
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  • Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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  • The Desert Primrose (or Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides) flower blooms white with yellow center, opening in the early evening and closing in mid-morning. Valley of Fire State Park, dedicated in 1935, is the oldest state park in Nevada. Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
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  • Reddish-orange tulip flowers bloom in the Skagit River Delta, Washington, USA between the towns of Mount Vernon and La Conner.
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  • Lupine flowers in Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae).
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  • Angel Wing and Mount Gould tower over blue-green Grinnell Lake and bear grass on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Bear grass (also called squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass) thrives after fire clears surface vegetation. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 named glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear as soon as 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass through fields of flowers in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Angel Wing and Mount Gould tower over blue-green Grinnell Lake and bear grass on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Bear grass (also called squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass) thrives after fire clears surface vegetation. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 named glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear as soon as 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Angel Wing and Mount Gould tower over blue-green Grinnell Lake and bear grass on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Bear grass (also called squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass) thrives after fire clears surface vegetation. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 named glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear as soon as 2020, say climate scientists. (Panorama stitched from 4 overlapping images.)
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  • Purple-blue lupine flowers (or lupins) bloom on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae).
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  • Buckwheat flower. Apikuni Falls trail, flowers, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Silene acaulis (Moss Campion) flowers bloom on a mound of green foliage at rocky Dawson Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Canada and USA share Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO honors as a World Heritage Site. Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks.
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  • Yellow flowers bloom in Two Medicine Valley on the Dawson Pass Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • A Gentian flower blooms on the Garden Wall Trail near Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Potentilla is the genus of typical cinquefoils, containing about 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass through fields of flowers in late July in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Mariposa Lily, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • A mushroom with concentric brown ring cap grows in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest), near Interstate 90, Washington, USA.
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  • A mushroom with split purple cap grows in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest), near Interstate 90, Washington, USA.
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  • Mount Baker Wilderness seen from Table Mountain, Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Mount Baker Wilderness seen from Table Mountain, Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Fall foliage turns color at Picture Lake, Heather Meadows, Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), Washington, USA.
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  • Snow Geese are typically seen in large flocks up to 55,000 in winter in western Washington, USA. Most gather in the Skagit River Delta (Skagit County) between the towns of Mount Vernon and La Conner (near Fir Island Road and Best Road) from mid-October to early May.
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  • Snow Geese are typically seen in large flocks up to 55,000 in winter in western Washington, USA. Most gather in the Skagit River Delta (Skagit County) between the towns of Mount Vernon and La Conner (near Fir Island Road and Best Road) from mid-October to early May.
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  • Mount Baker rises above Skagit River Delta farm buildings and cultivated yellow daffodil (Narcissus) fields in Washington, USA.
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  • A farm machine sprays a crop of tulips in the Skagit River Delta, beneath the snowcapped North Cascade Mountains in Washington, USA
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  • On the Excelsior Pass trail in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Mount Baker can be seen rising to 10,781 feet elevation across the valley. North Cascades mountain range, Washington, USA. Heather flowers bloom in the foreground.
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  • A Tiger Lily (or Columbia Lily, Lilium columbianum) blooms on Church Mountain across from Mount Baker, in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, north Cascade Mountains, Washington, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A Tiger Lily (or Columbia Lily, Lilium columbianum) blooms on Church Mountain across from Mount Baker, in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, North Cascade mountain range, Washington, USA
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  • Lewis' monkeyflower (Erythranthe lewisii) blooms on the Church Mountain trail in Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, North Cascade mountain range, Washington, USA. Erythranthe lewisii was formerly known as Mimulus lewisii before DNA evidence reclassified it in 2012. It is named in honor of explorer Meriwether Lewis.
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  • A frog in Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • Angel Wing and Mount Gould tower over blue-green Grinnell Lake and bear grass on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Bear grass (also called squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass) thrives after fire clears surface vegetation. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 named glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear as soon as 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • A yellow flower blooms on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Black butterfly with white and orange spots, on Dawson Pass Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Ants crawl in flowers on the Garden Wall Trail near Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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