They are both in the Buttercup family but different plants, but you know what monkshood is? (I just looked it up.) It's Aconite! Wolfsbane! Now we can make a potion for Remus! *giggles wildly*
The plants in the rainy picture are skunk cabbage. They poke out of the soil in the high country pretty much as soon as the snow recedes, and they grow really really fast.
The variety and the ubiquity of alpine plants also fascinates me. Here you are in this extremely rough terrain, rocky soil, harsh weather, covered by snow most of the year - and yet, there are so many different plants! So many beautiful flowers!
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Date: 2008-08-08 07:29 pm (UTC)The plants in the rainy picture are skunk cabbage. They poke out of the soil in the high country pretty much as soon as the snow recedes, and they grow really really fast.
The variety and the ubiquity of alpine plants also fascinates me. Here you are in this extremely rough terrain, rocky soil, harsh weather, covered by snow most of the year - and yet, there are so many different plants! So many beautiful flowers!