Cascade Pass part 2. Some plant life: photo 1-2: Parnassia fimbriata, new to me. Growing off a mossy rock, it's watered by the constant drip of water off the bluff above it. Sorry I missed the flowering stage. Photo 3: A saxifrage called Leptarrhena pyrolifolia, a favorite that I spot in cool damp rocky places all the time.
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A small plant with leathery ovate leaves, slightly shiny, with just the slightest serrations in the edges, in very pretty basal rosettes. Brown flower stems lift from the center of each rosette. It is growing beside a stone.
Closer view of the plant in photo 1. It looks like an undersea creature
A small plant growing on a mossy boulder. It has small round leaves and long stems that reach out from the rock like tentacles. Each holds a spent flower now becoming a seed bead