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quite a large population here

I suppose it could be Krascheninnikovia lanata...

Trail to Lake Ann

Maple Pass Loop trail

Family: Saxifragaceae. Pacific Crest Trail, Hart Pass to Grasshopper Pass, Washington

On talus slopes ascending Easy Pass

At Second Burroughs summit. Most plants ripening seed with some flowers.

Maple Pass Loop

Pacific Crest Trail between Cutthroat and Granite Pass
Elevation about 2070 meters (6800 feet)
Micranthes tolmiei and Cassiope mertensiana growing together

On Old Snowy along the Pacific Crest Trail. Probably not a good enough image but there are so few plants at this site I figured I'd put it here. Probably ~6500 feet?

Pale pinkish white flowers with 8 petals, growing in the shallow substrate on top of a boulder. Found in ponderosa pine forest.

Also known as Agoseris aurantiaca var. carnea. Sympatric with A. aurantiaca var. aurantiaca along trail, but more common in wetter microsites

Moist ledge on NW facing granite cliff of Old Baldy Mountain. Pinnately compound leaves in the foreground are Polemonium elegans.

Pistillate shrub

Draba taylori - a southern British Columbia/NC Washington endemic. Last observed in US at this site in 1933, until relocated in 2018. Recently named as a new species.

Capitate infructescence of dried flowers.

Cliff of Swakane Biotite gneiss about 1 mile SW of Rocky Reach dam along WA Hwy 97A

See also DOI: 10.2307/1547397