Mountain Avens overlooking the top of Wickersham Dome.

Low-bush Cranberry (Lingon berry)

Indian Pipe

Cloud Berry

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Fairy Slipper, Numa Lookout Trail, Glacier National Park

Lupines along the trail to Wickersham Dome

Arctic Sandwort

Sub-alpine Monkey Flower

Lupines, Maine

Bunch Berry, Murphy Dome, AK

Unknown Flower # 2! If you know I would love to hear it!

Gentian – Denali National Park

Columbia Lily

Prairie Lily

Inidan Painbrush

Three spot mariposa lily – Sandpoint, ID

Glacier LIly

Amonita Muscaria

Sweat Bee

Dog-bane

Unknown flower # 3, if you know please tell me!

Rock Rose – Teddy Roosevelt NP, North Dakota

Pink Plumes! Not even kidding, that’s their name!

Coral Root – Sandpoint, ID

Bearberry – Denali National Park

Fireweed is iconic to Alaska, and in thick patches it forms purple, waist-high carpets. Here, a butterfly was hiding in its petals. If anyone knows an ID on this butterfly, I would love to hear it! 🙂 It was not very big, not more than 1/2 of an inch. Update: It’s a Western Tailed Blue Butterfly, Thanks Mom for the ID, found on http://www.turtlepuddle.org/alaskan/butterfly23.html

Mountain Avens

Indian Paintbrush

Clasping-leaf Twisted-stalk

Prairie Smoke, Teddy Roosevelt, National Park

Cottongrass

Western Roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia). This flower blooms in sub-alpine regions and is in the sedum family.

Pasque Flowers are the first flower to bloom in Fort Yukon, AK. Here they have just emerged on 05/15/14

Prairie Lily

Gentian, Denali National Park, AK

White Trilium (species unknown)

Wild Clamadis – Glacier NP

Avens

Hoary Pacoon

Wild Blueberry, Murphy Dome, AK

Narcissus Anenome

A lone blue-bell flower grows in the rocks on one of the pulloffs along the Richardson Highway.

Low-bush Cranberry (lingon berry)

High bush cranberry – Ester Lake