High mountain…

Those words always pique my interest, and while trying to identify several wildflowers that I encountered after a brief visit to the Coeur d’Alene Mountains today I saw that they were attached to one of them; High Mountain Cinquefoil. As usual, I could be wrong in the identification, but the name seems to fit the plant.

High Mountain Cinquefoil, Potentilla flabellifolia with the peaks of the Cherry Peak Roadless Area in the background

Cinquefoil and friend

Though I didn’t go as far as I would have liked, I did run across a number of species of wildflowers and I will likely post them in the next few days even though there are a couple that I haven’t yet identified.

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