Mt. Rainier Flora --
Festuca rubra -- (Red Fescue)
The spikelets are most often reddish-purple. This is subspecies rubra.
Author: Susan McDougall
Longmire Meadow, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.7497, -121.8147, 2724
Date: July 11, 2014
The plants are loosely tufted, and the leaf blades inrolled.
Author: Susan McDougall
Longmire Meadow, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.7497, -121.8147, 2724
Date: July 11, 2014
A common fescue that grows from middle elevations to over 7,000 feet above Paradise, the plants vary in stature depending on their location.
Author: Susan McDougall
Longmire Meadow, Mount Rainier National Park
GPS: 46.7497, -121.8147, 2724
Date: July 11, 2014
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