Columbia Lily

This is our native Tiger Lily, Lilium columbianum. Usually a very tall plant with a lot of flowers there is a dwarf form of this plant that grows on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics that is less than a foot tall and has only one or two flowers. This flower was photographed there and if you look closely you can see the aphids covering the stem. Last summer was very warm and dry and the aphids were especially abundant, it seemed, wherever we went.