Flower detail from image below.
Grand Canyon National Park: Grand Canyon Village near railroad tracks.
23 August 2002.
Flower and foliage, same plant as above.
23 August 2002.
Habit and habitat.
Grand Canyon National Park: Grand Canyon Village west of Power House.
El Tovar hotel in background.
14 July 2002.
Fruiting branch, with pen for scale.
Grand Canyon National Park: Same plant as in habit image above.
14 July 2002.
Foliage.
Look closely and you will see some leaf stalks which lack the
leaf blades—browsed by deer and/or elk.
Grand Canyon National Park: Same plant as in habit image above.
14 July 2002.
Fruit detail.
Grand Canyon National Park: Same population as photographed two years earlier, above.
29 September 2004.
Fruit open, showing seeds inside, having apparently been sampled by deer or elk.
Grand Canyon National Park: Same population as photographed in prior image.
29 September 2004.
Ripe fruit and withered leaves and stems, probably killed by frost.
Grand Canyon National Park: Same population as photographed in prior image.
29 September 2004.
Photographs copyright © Lee Dittmann
This page last updated 4 July 2008.
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