[Shooting Stars: The Genus Dodecatheon in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

A nice patch of alpine shooting star as seen in moist meadows along the Timberline Trail above Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Area, Mt. Hood........July 25, 2010.

Close-up photos of the flowers of alpine shooting star. Note the capitate stigma (round, widened tip to the stigma). This species has floral parts in fours, a glabrous inflorescence, and basal leaves that are glabrous and linear-oblanceolate. The similar tall mountain shooting star (Dodecatheon jeffreyi) is also found on Mt. Hood and it may be 4-5 merous in terms of floral parts, but has broader leaves with the leaves and inflorescence often glandular-pubescent. Photographed in moist meadows along the Timberline Trail above Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Area, Mt. Hood.......July 25, 2010.

Tall mountain shooting star blooming along a small stream along the Goat Ridge Trail #95 in Jordan Basin, Goat Rocks Wilderness.......July 12, 2018.

Tall mountain shooting star as seen in a ditch at the trailhead at High Prairie, just north of the Badger Creek Wilderness boundary.........July 4, 2013.

Tall mountain shooting star as seen at Bottle Prairie, Mount Hood National Forest...........May 17, 2015.

Tall mountain shooting star as seen in moist meadows at the eastern base of the Goat Rocks massif, about one-quarter mile uphill to the west of a 20' waterfall on the South Fork Conrad Creek, Goat Rocks Wilderness.........July 22, 2016.