We hiked on the Moul Falls Trail, then along the Birch Bluffs Rim route, a 15 km hike.   Along the way we stopped to photograph a few plants in flower.   Bunchberry (cornus canadensis) was prolific in the birch forests of the plateau.

The first queen’s cup flowers (clintonia uniflora) were just emerging.

Near trailside a pair of striped coralroot (corallorhiza striata) were ready to bloom.

A single mountain ladyslipper (cypripediummontamum( was spotted above Grouse Creek, looking like a cross between (brownish sepalled) mountain ladyslipper, sparrow’s egg ladyslipper, and yellow ladyslipper.

On the edge of the cliffs matte saxifrage (saxifraga bronchialis) was in flower, all too close to the drop-off for a close-up.

For such a long hike I was surprised by how little variation there was, but we stayed at the same elevation and spent much of the time on an exposed ridge at the edge of birch forests, not much of a change in aspect nor in ecological zones.