Dance of Dunces
A sea of Yellow Dryas going to seed. I'd never seen this flower before and in fact the flowering was finished but what is left is what looks like a dunce cap as the seed head unfurls into something akin to the dandelion seed head but with differences. Apparently this evergreen shrub is one of the first to colonize land after the retreat of a glacier. This photo was near the moraine of the Kennecott and Root glaciers.
Taken 16 July 2020 near McCarthy, Alaska in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Dance of Dunces
A sea of Yellow Dryas going to seed. I'd never seen this flower before and in fact the flowering was finished but what is left is what looks like a dunce cap as the seed head unfurls into something akin to the dandelion seed head but with differences. Apparently this evergreen shrub is one of the first to colonize land after the retreat of a glacier. This photo was near the moraine of the Kennecott and Root glaciers.
Taken 16 July 2020 near McCarthy, Alaska in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve.