Alaskan flora

Alaska fireweed (fireweed flavored ice cream is rather tasty too!)This gorgeousness can be found along the upper section of the Healy overlook trail (Denali Natl park entrance)Flowers of the delicate Alaskan tundra (Eielson Visitor Center area, DNP)
It apparently gets really purple later in the summer, with flowers like these, and a couple of other purple varieties:
Random bits of nature captured on the journey...