THE BLUE GENTIAN
"MOST BEAUTIFUL OF OUR LATE-BLOOMING WILDFLOWERS"
Visitors to the Park at this time rarely fail to remark about the
radiant beauty of these large tubular blue flowers. Growing in small
clumps the perfection is in sharp contract to the waning beauty of the
other flowers that are now fast disappearing from the mountain side. It
is found in the moist places on the hillsides growing side by side with
the brilliant red Indian Paint Brush and the small white, tufted heads
of the Mountain Dock forming a fine display of red - white - and blue;
our national colors.
OUR FAMOUS AVALANCHE LILY
This popular and very beautiful flower seems assured of another
brilliant season if one were to judge from the numerous seed pods that
are found on every hand. One finds them nodding in the breeze at the
end of long slender stems, 8 to 12 inches long. These seed pods are
divided into three parts and at the present time are just beginning to
burst and scatter great numbers of seeds--assurance of their abundance
when the snows recede up the mountainside next summer.
AN ALBINO MIMULUS
Ranger Macy brought in several white mimulus or monkey flowers the
other day that he found growing along with the red variety on Edith
Creek. He states that he has observed this small clump each year for
the past three years and the white flowers have been found growing in
the same locality.
