A few Plateau plants

From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on September 15.

Here are a few photos from a hike I did up Mt. Becher with Mandy a few weeks ago. Some wonderful colours starting and lots of interesting plants though most of the summer blooms are over. [Click a photo to enlarge it.]

1. Colour mix (mountain ash, blueberries, heather). Photo by Mandy V.

2. Sitka mountain-ash (Sorbus sitchensis)

3. Fringed grass-of-parnassis (Parnassia fimbriata)

4. Mountain mare’s-tail (Hippuris montana)

5. False asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa): very bright red seedheads!

6. Alpine alumroot (Heuchera glabra)

7. View of Mt. Drabble (right) and Indianhead (left) with Mt. Washington beyond. Photo by Mandy V.