Pedicularis groenlandica Retz.

The appropriately-named "elephant-heads", found in most of the western United States and Canada in montane wetlands & bogs.

Plant habit on the trail to Ruby Lake from Mosquito Flat, east slope of the Sierra Nevada, 6 Jul 2008.



Flowers on the trail to Ruby Lake, 6 Jul 2008.



A field of elephant-heads on the Catherine Pass Trail, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah, 30 Jul 2009.

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