Wild Flowers

Mt. Rainier has a wide array of wild flowers. Green grass and wild flowers grow naturally near the trails. Hikers are reminded to stay on the trail and off the flowers.

"Above the forests there is a zone of the loveliest flowers...so closely planted and luxuriant that it seems as if nature, glad to make an open space between woods so dense and ice so deep were economizing the precious ground and trying to see how many of her darlings she can get together in one mountain wreath of daisies, anemones, geraniums, columbine, erythroniums, larkspurs, among which we wade knee-deep and waist-deep, the bright corollas in myriads touching petal to petal. All together this is the richest subalpine garden I have ever found, a perfect floral Elysium."
John Muir

The flowers in the photograph are shooting stars.