Green gentian
Frasera speciosa
Description: Greenish-white wheel-shaped flowers one-half to three-quarters of an inch across with purple spots grow from stalks that extend from above leaves near the top of a stem 2 to 5 feet tall. Lance-shaped leaves are up to 1 foot long near the base of the plant and decrease in size up the [...]
Tags: Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
Pinedrops – made up of a red stalk with numerous golden, bell-shaped flowers hanging from it – is a unique flower that can currently be found in Pattee Canyon.
According to Wildflowers of Montana, by Donald Anthony Schiemann, pinedrops has no chlorophyll and gets nutrients from fungi on the forest floor.
Find it along the southside ski [...]
Tags: Pattee Canyon
Beargrass
Xerophyllum tenax
Description: A dense cluster of small cream to white flowers atop a stem 2 to 3 feet tall with a large tuft of sharp-edged grasslike leaves at the base. (Peterson Field Guides’ Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, by John J. Craighead, Frank C. Craighead Jr. and Ray J. Davis.)
Recently seen: Highline Trail and Swiftcurrent Pass Trail [...]
Tags: Glacier National Park
