The heather was in full blow, and in wet parts the ground white with parnassia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady John Russell]

The species are not identical, but closely analogous in aspect and physiognomy, as, marsh parnassia, and the prickly species of Ribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

I saw a few plants anchored in the less crumbling parts of the steep-faced bosses and steps -- parnassia, potentilla, hedysarum, lutkea, etc. The lower, rough-looking patches half way up the mountain are mostly alder bushes ten or fifteen feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

Its banks are embossed with moss and grass and sedge well mixed with flowers -- daisies, larkspurs, solidagos, parnassia, potentilla, strawberry, etc. Small strips of meadow occur here and there, and belts of slender arrowy fir and spruce with moss-clad roots grow close to the water's edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

Lutkea, hedysarum, parnassia, epilobium, bluebell, solidago, habenaria, strawberry with fruit half grown, arctostaphylos, mertensia, erigeron, willows, tall grasses and alder are the principal species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

Many fine alpine plants grew here, an anemone on the summit, two species of cassiope in shaggy mats, three or four dwarf willows, large blue hairy lupines eighteen inches high, parnassia, phlox, solidago, dandelion, white-flowered bryanthus, daisy, pedicularis, epilobium, etc., with grasses, sedges, mosses, and lichens, forming a delightful deep spongy sod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference