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A Botanic Surprise in the Mosquito Range
By Richard F. Fleck
  EnlargeI have never before seen such a large cluster of this succulent plant being over ten square feet in size under a protected cove of Cameron Peak, Colorado. Photo by Andrew Fyon
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Between Mount Cameron and Lincoln
On a north-facing slope just below
Fourteen thousand feet, I am surprised
To discover a charming piece of tundra
Reminding me of dusty, deserty prairie
Far below where cactus and yucca grow.
But up here I stop to admire an entire
Colony of succulent dwarf mulleins with
Delicate pinkish blossoms blooming forth
From fleshly rosettes of greenish-yellow
Sepals housed in a very dry and stony soil
So high above such vast and open space.
