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FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 
abundant at the end of the trail leading into Van Trump Park and 
along the lower meadows on the glacier trail leading into Paradise 
Valley. It may be found from the lower meadows to timber line. 
Fig. 28.—Mountain phlox (Phlox diffusa). 
Color of flower, lavender to white; height of plant, 1 to 4 inches; blooms July and August. 
Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 
It blooms rather late, and may be found in October with its large, 
beautiful blue flowers up through a foot of snow, being held upright 
by small branches of the rosy spiraea or other shrubs common to 
