Up close they were head-high in a riot of color: red paintbrush, lavender fleabane, hot-pink fireweed, white cow parsnip, lacy green false hellebore, the flashy red of chokecherries, white pearls of baneberry, rich purple huckleberries, fierce yellows of butterweed and arnica. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
The park contains 500 taxa of vascular plants, of which at least 13 are endemic, including Olympic mountain milk-vetch Astraglaus austrlis var. olympicus, Piper's bellflower Campanula piperi, Olympic mountain daisy Erigeron flettii, rockmat Petrophytum hendersonii, Olympic butterweed Senecio neowebsteri and Flett's violet Viola flettii; and seven varieties: Piper's bellflower white form Campanula piperi v. soveregniana, magenta paintbrush Castilleja parviflora v. olympica, wallflower Erysimum arenicola v. arenicola, white coiled-beak lousewort Pedicularis bracteosa v. astrosanguinea, kittentails Synthris pinnatifida v. lanuginosa and Olympic rockcress Arabis furcata v. olympica. From Wordnik.com. [Olympic National Park, United States] Reference
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