Fringed Grass of Parnassus
One of my favorite wildflowers of wet meadows and bogs, the grass of Parnassus is a very striking and delicate native that has a somewhat confusing name, as it isn't even closely related to grasses. That name for the genus came from Greek botanist Dioscorides who described it as a grass-like plant that grew on the side of Mount Parnassus. The description was wrong, but the name stuck. It is found in every state and province in continental North America from the Rocky Mountains and west, excluding Arizona. This beauty was found at a very high elevation in the Olympic Mountains on Washington's Hurricane ridge growing next to some carnivorous butterworts between permanently wet rocks.
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- © 2013
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- 4201x2790 / 3.2MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Celastraceae, Celastrales, Clallam County, Eudicots, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic Mountains, Olympic National Park, P. fimbriata, PNW, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Parnassia, Parnassia fimbriata, Plantae, Rosids, Saxifragaceae, Washington, alpine, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, bog star, bog-star, botany, bud, color, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, fringed grass of Parnassus, grass of Parnassus, grass-of-parnassus, green, herb, native, natural, nature, peduncle, perennial, plant, plants, subalpine, summer, west coast, wild, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Celastraceae (Bog-stars)
