Mophead

Until today when I bought a "Wildflowers of Mount Rainier" book I believed that my nickname for this stage of the Pasqueflower was original - not so as the description reads "elongates to form a fascinating Dr. Seuss-like silvery droopy mophead".

I first saw these five years ago when we joined a work crew in the far northern Mt. Robson Provincial Park near Jasper, Canada and there in the high sub-alpine fields were these same mopheads, a name the crew all loved using. We hiked in Mt. Rainier Park today and will again tomorrow - the vistas were less clear so my camera was directed at the profusion of meadow flowers!