It's Flower City, Everybody

OR: More Fun With Macro

In case you ever wanted to know, I think I've gotten a photo of most of the flowering or berry-ing plants that grow in the mountains of northern Montana. I left all the ferns and trees out, because you can see most of them at your local Home Depot, but there are still way too many photos. Sorry. I do know the names of some of these plants, but not this first one.

This is a paintbrush
Mountain sunflower? They're tiny and they were only still in bloom at the very top of our hike very close to the glacier.
Something-something buckwheat. I think.
I don't know the name of this one, but it has the most beautiful bunches of tiny white flowers.

The ubiquitous huckleberry. Every store we saw sells huckleberry everything, from chocolate to hand cream to fabric softener.
Wild raspberries
I didn't know for sure if these were huckleberries...but we figured since all the hikers and animals that had passed before us left all them undisturbed on the bush, we should probably leave them alone.
Prairie fire

Spotted napweed...this is a toxic invasive plant that puts poison in the soil and kills all the plants around it until eventually it takes over a particular area.
It's a monkey flower...or monkey plant...I forgot which
It comes in blue, too. This one had a little wasp inside.
I don't know what this is, but it is the most delicate little blossom, about the size of a thumbnail. So pretty!
This bush of something was growing with a bunch of moss in a little waterfall on the side of the mountain.
Mountain lily. We didn't see any of these below 8,000 feet.

Again, an unknown yellow flower. But it's pretty
And it comes in pink, too!
So cool. This is the smoke flower, and this is what it looks like in full bloom.
Another unknown and sort of scary-looking berry.