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Showing posts with label Primulaceae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primulaceae. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2012

Dodecatheon hedersonii (shooting star)


Paradise creek, Sierra Nevada CA, USA, April 7, 2010

When I first saw the flowers of Dodecatheon, the very evening that we camped with my friend George on the second Sierra camp on our way to the Sequoia park, I thaugh they were already wizen. The next day, under better light conditions, I realized they were just like that, honoring their common name of 'shooting stars'.