Spicate Oregon checker-mallow (Sidalcea oregona, ssp. spicata), flowerspike with buds above, open pink flowers tightly clustered at center, and seedpods forming below. At the Piute Pass trailhead (9,500 ft (2,900 m)), John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California.
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