06-17-2011, 11:03 PM
I don't know if anyone else is interested, but I did finally find out what the purple flower is. I don't think I have ever seen it before. It is an early spring bloomer.
This is from: Idaho Mountain Wildflowers [url "http://www.larkspurbooks.com/hydro1.html"]http://www.larkspurbooks.com/hydro1.html[/url]
Ballhead waterleaf, Hydrophyllum capitatum[/url] [/url]Douglas ex Benth. (right). The ballhead waterleaf is an early spring blooming plant found along seasonal freshets or on slopes still moist from the snowmelt. Attractive, round, frizzy, purple flowerheads up to two inches in diameter soon appear, partially hidden by the plant's bright green, incised leaves. The small flowers have five sepals, five petals, and five projecting anthers. Typically purple, the flowers may range to white at subalpine elevations.
As far as the chapstick for floatant, I have had to resort to it before. It is my favorite "emergency" fly floatant.
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This is from: Idaho Mountain Wildflowers [url "http://www.larkspurbooks.com/hydro1.html"]http://www.larkspurbooks.com/hydro1.html[/url]
Ballhead waterleaf, Hydrophyllum capitatum[/url] [/url]Douglas ex Benth. (right). The ballhead waterleaf is an early spring blooming plant found along seasonal freshets or on slopes still moist from the snowmelt. Attractive, round, frizzy, purple flowerheads up to two inches in diameter soon appear, partially hidden by the plant's bright green, incised leaves. The small flowers have five sepals, five petals, and five projecting anthers. Typically purple, the flowers may range to white at subalpine elevations.
As far as the chapstick for floatant, I have had to resort to it before. It is my favorite "emergency" fly floatant.
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