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Beautiful lily type plant
Cultus Lake trail
Spotted on Jul 23, 2011
Submitted on Jul 24, 2011
3 Comments
Definitely not Queen's cup, looks more like Lillium washingtonianum.
Yes, we have never seen them here either. We had a lot more snow this year and all the flowers in the mountains are blooming:)
The closest I can come up with is Clintonia uniflora (Queen's cup), but this looks like there are flower stems branching off a main stem, and the flowers look both bigger and more colorful than C. uniflora. I've never seen it hiking in the Cascades before; good spotting!