Common Name: Leatherleaf Saxifrage, Fireleaf Leptarrhena, Pearleaf

No listed varieties:

Note the small clasping rounded toothed leaf just above the rounded toothed basal leaves. Reddish flower stem with small clump of flowers (very narrow curled white petals with extended stamens) that are in bloom only a short time. Most often one sees the red, pointed bright seed pods.

west North Cascades; west Olympics;
TRAIL: Tomyhoi Lake; Heart Lake; Mt. Larabee
HABITAT: subalpine meadow
ELEVATION: 1,675 m (5,500 ft.); 1,160 m (3,800 ft.); 1,990 m (6,200 ft.)
BLOOM TIME: 19-AUG; 22-AUG; 12-AUG