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June
2008
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Snowy Range Closeups
As the winter snow melts high in the mountains above 10000
feet, flowers quickly appear, sometimes poking through the snow. The ground at first glance appears bare, but
is covered with many interesting plants which grow only a few inches high.
All photos by John Nordin, 22 June 2008.
Snowy Range, general setting, looks bare, but the ground is
textured with many plants
Water gushes from the snow
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Plants (pussytoes, draba, etc.)carpet the ground
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Glacier Lilies appear as the snow melts
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Alpine clover
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Jacobs Ladder
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Alpine Forget-me-nots and stonecrop
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Stonecrop (one inch high) get ready to bloom
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The rocks are covered with lichens
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Alpine Forget-me-nots and rock lichens
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Alpine phlox carpet the ground
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Wood grain texture, scale about 10 inches
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Candytuft (Noccaea)
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More Alpine Forget-me-nots (Eritrichum nanum)
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Black-mooned Anarta Moth
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Alpine Drabas
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Polentille cinquefoil
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Eritrichum nanum (white variety)
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Erigeron compositus |
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The author wishes to thank Ernie Nelson of the University of
Wyoming (Rocky Mountain Herbarium) for plant identifications.
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