FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 
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ever, to be poisonous to sheep and other animals. The mountain ash, 
Sorbus occidentalism has large flat clusters of rather small white 
flowers and compound leaves. This is also much admired in the late 
Fig. 10.—White rhododendron (Rhododendron albiflorum). 
Color of flower, white or greenish white; height of plant, 1 to 6 feet; blooms July and August. 
Photograph by Asahel Curtis. 
fall and early winter because of its bright red berries which hang 
on the shrub for a long time unless devoured by the birds. The camp 
robbers and Clark’s crow see that these berries do not stay on too long. 
