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Montana: Glacier NP: flowers, plants

40 images Created 24 Jun 2011

In Montana's Glacier National Park, flower and plant photographs include: Gaillardia (or Blanket flower), bear grass, lupine, columbine, Gentian, Potentilla, Castilleja (Indian paintbrush), Mimulus (monkeyflower), Phacelia, Phlox, sticky purple geranium, mariposa lily, Monarda (bee balm), and burnt forest views. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976).

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  • Gaillardia (or Blanket flower) is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Photo from Baring Creek Valley, in Glacier National Park, in the Rocky Mountains, Montana, USA.
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  • Angel Wing and Mount Gould tower over blue-green Grinnell Lake and bear grass on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Bear grass (also called squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass) thrives after fire clears surface vegetation. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 named glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear as soon as 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Mimulus or monkeyflower blooms on Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax, or synonym Helonias tenax) is a grasslike perennial in the family Melanthiaceae, closely related to lilies. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass through fields of flowers in late July in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • The sticky purple geranium (Geranium viscosissimum) is a perennial in the Geraniaceae family of flowering plants. Apikuni Falls trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Potentilla is the genus of typical cinquefoils, containing about 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Buckwheat flower. Apikuni Falls trail, flowers, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Baring Creek tumbles and falls over red sedimentary rocks in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks.
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  • Columbine flower (genus Aquilegia, in the Buttercup family, Ranunculaceae). The Garden Wall trail is hiked from Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass through fields of flowers in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • A white butterfly with black spots (order Lepidoptera) sucks nector from a blue aster flower, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. The aster, daisy, or sunflower family (Asteraceae or Compositae) is the largest family of vascular plants.
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  • Black butterfly with white and orange spots, on Dawson Pass Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Purple bee balm flowers, Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Monarda (bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, or bergamot) is a genus consisting of roughly 16 species of erect, herbaceous, annual or perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae.
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  • Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, as well as northeast Asia. These plants are classified in the family Orobanchaceae, and are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Mariposa Lily, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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  • Hike the Garden Wall Trail from Logan Pass through fields of flowers in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Gaillardia, or Blanket flower, is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Saint Mary Visitor Center viewpoint, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks. Glaciers carved spectacular U-shaped valleys and pyramidal peaks as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum (the last "Ice Age" 25,000 to 13,000 years ago). Of the 150 glaciers existing in the mid 1800s, only 25 active glaciers remain in the park as of 2010, and all may disappear by 2020, say climate scientists.
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  • Yellow flowers bloom in Two Medicine Valley on the Dawson Pass Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Purple-blue lupine and red-salmon colored Indian paintbrush flowers bloom on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae). Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, as well as northeast Asia. Castilleja is classified in the family Orobanchaceae, and is hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs.
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  • Gaillardia (or Blanket flower) is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Photo from Baring Creek Valley, in Glacier National Park, in the Rocky Mountains, Montana, USA.
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  • Purple-blue lupine flowers (or lupins) bloom on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae).
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  • Albino lupine (or lupin) flowers bloom on Apikuni Falls Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae).
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  • A fly and bee explore a Phacelia flower stalk covered with protruding stamens and pistils. Contact with some species of this genus such as Phacelia crenulata can cause a very unpleasant rash similar to that from poison oak and poison ivy in sensitive individuals, due to the chemical geranylhydroquinone. Photo is from the Dawson Pass Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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  • Silene acaulis (Moss Campion) flowers bloom on a mound of green foliage at rocky Dawson Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Canada and USA share Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO honors as a World Heritage Site. Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these old rocks over newer Cretaceous age rocks.
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  • A Gentian flower blooms on the Garden Wall Trail near Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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