Alpines - June, 2012

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How's about an update to get us into June?
Close-up of flowers on Rheum rhizostachyum:

Buds on Silene bolanthoides:

Rhodiola rosea:

Another Rhodiola... labelled as Rhodiola roseum purpureum when I bought it locally, but I'm not sure absolutely sure if that is correct; it has remained very small and has been going dormant after blooming, which seems odd:

Phlox hendersonii:

Aquilegia laramiensis:

This is not quite the floral extravagance that I hope for in the future, but I guess it's okay for a second-year seedling - Erigeron nanus, bless it's little heart : :)

Linum cariense:

Euphorbia capitulata, as the flowers go from yellow to orange: