Note unusual shape of purple flower (tube expanding out to broad lower petal (3 fused petals) and narrower upper petal (2 fused petals) whose opposite leaves are like those from a burning nettle (Urtica dioica) plant (short stiff hairs underneath, deeply crumpled (veined?) slightly hairy top and sharply toothed edges.
west North Cascades
TRAIL: Yellow Aster Butte
HABITAT: mid elevation meadow (avalanche slope)
ELEVATION: 1,215 m (3,955 ft.)
BLOOM TIME: 17-JUL
