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| Buckhorn Wilderness and the Olympic Mountains |
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| Colorful bloom in mid-July |
| Saxifraga oppositifolia |
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| Growing on mountain tops on vertical north-facing rock. Flowers late May/early June. |
| Synthyris pinnatifida v. lanuginosa |
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| Spring flowering and done before most others start to bud. |
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| Douglasia laevigata |
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| A member of the Primula family flowering in late spring/early summer. |
| Smelowskia calycina |
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| A short alpine crucifer, this one spotted with dew. |
| Viola flettii |
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| This violet is found only in Olympics, often in cool rock crevises |
| Anemone occidentalis |
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| Another snow melt species with flowers that are very short lived. |
| Erythronium montanum |
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| The Avalanche Lily flowers in alpine areas that receive winter snow cover. |
| Collomia debilis var. larsenii |
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| Only found on loose rock and gravel slopes |
| Erigeron flettii |
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| This daisy species grows only on the higher peaks in Olympics |
| Dryas drummondii |
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| Rare in the Olympics but common north to Alaska |
| Saxifraga caespitosa |
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| The tufted saxifrage, circumarboreal, of cliffs and rocks. |
| Phacelia sericea |
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| Found throughout West growing on rock or scree |
| Petrophytum hendersonii |
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| A mat-forming shrub, restricted to the Olympics. |
| Salix nivalis |
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| The Snow Willow........ a tree without a trunk. |
| Campanula piperi |
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| The Olympic bellflower is found only in rock cracks and screes in the Olympics. |
Compare Campanulas of Washington....
| Senecio neowebsteri |
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| Restricted to cool rocky screes in the Olympics, typically flowering later in season. |
| Senecio neowebsteri. |
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| Flowers later in summer. |
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| Delphinium glaerosum and Castilleja miniata |
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