National Park Service Subalpine Wildflowers U.S. Department of the Interior Mount Rainier National Park

Broadleaf Lupine False Hellebore Elephanthead Mountain Bog Gentian Beargrass Jeffrey's Shooting Star

The subalpine meadows of Rockslide Larkspur Mount Rainier have long been Delphinium glareosum praised for their unsurpassed Showy Jacob's Ladder beauty. Amidst the spectacular Polemonium pulcherrimum wildflower meadows, the uniqueness of individual Small-flowered Penstemon Marsh Marigold Rosy Spirea flowers often goes unnoticed. Penstemon procerus Take time to admire each Spreading Phlox flower for its own qualities Phlox diffusa while using this guide to familiarize yourself with the Subalpine Daisy different species. For more Erigeron peregrinus information about wildflowers, Lewis' Monkeyflower Mountain Monkeyflower stop at the Sunrise or Paradise visitor centers. Flower Red / Pink Flowers identification books are available for purchase Cascade Huckleberry throughout the park. Please Vaccinium deliciosum stay on trails or thick patches of Cliff Penstemon snow and do not pick flowers. Penstemon rupicola Pasqueflower Pasqueflower Seedhead Elephanthead Blue / Violet Flowers Pedicularis groenlandica

Alpine Aster Lewis' Monkeyflower Oreostemma alpigenus Mimulus lewisii Bird’s-beak Lousewort Magenta Paintbrush Pedicularis ornithorhyncha Castilleja parviflora Pink Mountain Heather White Mountain Heather Broadleaf Lupine Pink Mountain Heather Lupinus latifolius Phyllodoce empetriformis Cascade Aster Rosy Spirea Eucephalus ledophyllus Spiraea densiflora Cusick's Speedwell Scarlet Paintbrush Veronica cusickii Castilleja miniata Cusick’s Speedwell Cascade Huckleberry Harebell Western Columbine Campanula rotundifolia Aquilegia formosa Jeffrey’s Shooting Star Dodecatheon jeffreyi Brown / Green Flower Mountain Bog Gentian False Hellebore Gentiana calycosa Veratrum viride Small-flowered Penstemon Cliff Penstemon Subalpine Daisy Alpine Aster Cascade Aster Avalanche Lily Glacier Lily Tiger Lily

Partridge Foot American Bistort Sitka Mountain Ash Pearly Everlasting Gray’s Lovage Sitka Valerian

“...the most luxurious and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top ramblings.”

— John Muir on Mount Rainier’s meadows­­

Subalpine Buttercup Fan-leaf Cinquefoil Scarlet Paintbrush Magenta Paintbrush

Coiled-beak Lousewort Bracted Lousewort Bird’s-beak Lousewort Smooth Mtn. Dandelion Broadleaf Arnica Arrowleaf Groundsel

Sitka Valerian Smooth Mountain Dandelion White Flowers Valeriana sitchensis Nothocalais alpestris American Bistort Polygonum bistortoides Tolmie's Saxifrage Subalpine Buttercup Saxifraga tolmiei Ranunculus eschscholtzii Avalanche Lily White Mountain Heather montanum Mount Rainier’s subalpine meadows Cassiope mertensiana receive enormous amounts of snow, Beargrass giving only a very short Xerophyllum tenax Yellow / Orange Flowers summer growing season. Each Coiled-beak Lousewort Arrowleaf Groundsel ’s energy must be spent on rapid Pedicularis contorta Senecio triangularis flowering, leaving little energy to recover from Gray's Lovage Bracted Lousewort damage caused Ligusticum grayi Pedicularis bracteosa by footsteps or other factors. Marsh Marigold Broadleaf Arnica With each Caltha leptosepala Arnica latifolia step taken onto the Partridge Foot Fan-leaf Cinquefoil meadows, an Luetkea pectinata Potentilla flabellifolia average of 20 Pasqueflower Glacier Lily plants are damaged. Even if a plant survives the weight of your footstep, it may be stunted for years. Pearly Everlasting Mountain Monkeyflower Anaphalis margaritacea Mimulus tilingii Please stay on trails or thick patches of snow to protect fragile Sitka Mountain Ash Tiger Lily vegetation while visiting the Sorbus sitchensis Lilium columbianum meadows.

Western Columbine Rockslide Larkspur Spreading Phlox Tolmie’s Saxifrage Harebell Showy Jacob’s Ladder

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