The Flowers of Denali: Tiny But Tough
That anything can survive at all in the North is a miracle, given the harsh winters with long dark months with subzero temperatures. The flowers here not only survive but flourish.
Fireweed grows in abundance along the park road and anywhere else where there is recently disturbed soil.
(Above) A purple gentian.
(Left) A fly lands on an unidentified pink blossom.
(Right) A woolly lousewort grows its own fuzzy insulation from the weather.
(Below) Beautiful moss campion survives in part by being tiny.
(Right) Mountain aven
(Left) Another species of woolly lousewort
(Below) Chiming bell or bluebell
