RHH's photos with the keyword: shooting star

This is the Tall Mountain Shooting Star, Dodecatheon jeffreyi, a rather rare wildflower found in alpine areas. We photographed these near Lake Serene where quite a few wildflowers were still blooming. At lower elevations the Shooting Stars are spring wildflowers, but there is little distinction between spring and summer at higher elevations.

Photographed in the Bald Hills.

To the best of my knowledge this is the Few-flowered Shooting Star, Dodecatheon pulchellum. We found this growing on an open rocky shoreline in Washington Park where it must have to be tolerant of salt water. I've posted this picture though I have a number of others on my blog because I thought both the flower itself and the flower against this background captured something of the reason for the name "Shooting Star."