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Everyone knows dandelions, known scientifically as Taraxacum officinale.
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For this week’s Wildflower Wednesday, I present: a flower of whose identity I am not at all certain.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the clustered rhodiola.
It isn’t the standard wildflower: hasn’t got a visible pollen center, not strictly defined petals. It survives all year round, favoring rock crevices, where it can grow easily, but flowers from June till August.
This one was spotted at Tarsar Pass, overlooking the beautiful blue Tarsar lake and after nearly an hour of hard trekking up a slope far too steep to look back down. The red is striking in a world of grey and blue and green, a little clump of fire at the top of the world.