RHH's photos with the keyword: mountain heliotrope

Photographed near the end of the Heliotrope Ridge trail, these are the seedheads of Sitka Valerian or Mountain Heliotrope, the plant for which Heliotrope Ridge is named. As the name indicates it is not really Heliotrope but Valerian. The hike to Heliotrope Ridge was one I did recently with my brother Tim.

Taken along the trail as we climbed from the Swift Creek basin up to Lake Ann. The photo looks back down the valley through which we hiked. The flowers are Mountain Heliotrope, Valeriana sitchensis and Arctic Lupine, Lupinus latifolius.