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FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



red or purplish red color and radiate clusters. These red clusters 

 appear in well-balanced groups throughout these extensive flower 

 beds, harmonizing with the blue, the white, and the yellow of other 

 plants. Painted cup is another popular name for it. These com- 

 mon names are applied to any species of Castilleia in this vicinity. 

 The red heather forms dense patches with its long shrubby stems 

 usually leaning over to one side with its red bell-shape flowers. 



Along the numerous streams may be found Lewis's monkey flower 

 (2gEI§3 with its rose-red two-lipped corolla. Here, too, may be seen 



Fig. 21. — Western anemone in flower (Pulsatilla octidentalis) . 



Color of Dower, lavender; height of plant, 10 to 18 inches; blooms July and August. 



Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 



the rosy spiraea which continues up from the lower moist meadows. 

 The spiraea and the monkey flower arc always associated with 

 moisture, while the Indian paint brush and red heather are not. 

 These rills can often be traced in the distance by the bright rose-red 

 flowers of Lewis's moiikevvflower and by the bright yellow of the 



alpine monkey floweryTwriTeu loves the same habitat. Both species 

 grow in dense masses and often cover the ground to the exclusion of 

 other plants. The yellow fireweed, Epilobium luteum, flourishes best 

 along the streams in the lower meadows. It may be known by its 



