Mt. Rainier Flora --
Eriogonum pyrolifolium -- (Alpine Buckwheat)
Nick-named "dirty socks", the flowers have a stale scent on warm days.
Author: Susan McDougall
Frozen Lake trail, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.9175, -121.6447, 6526
Date: August 7, 2014
Common above 5,500 feet on rocky ground, this tufted buckwheat has oval leaves with small hairs above and woolly beneath.
Author: Susan McDougall
Frozen Lake trail, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.9175, -121.6447, 6526
Date: August 7, 2014
Two narrow bracts are found at the base of the small flowers, which are borne in an umbel. This is variety coryphaeum.
Author: Susan McDougall
Frozen Lake trail, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.9175, -121.6447, 6526
Date: August 7, 2014
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