Early Morning Buds.

Posted on June 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A cluster of red buds on some endangered snow flowers in Lassen National Park yesterday. The park ranger told me that they grow up through the snow in early spring, feeding on the roots if trees rather than on chlorophyll.
-AidanAbroad

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