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Elephant Heads Sprouting off the foot-tall green stalks are numerous tiny pink flowers shaped like elephant trunks and ears. While not as showy as other meadow plants like columbine and tiger lilies, elephant heads are often seen in spring and early summer in Tahoe Meadows and especially in Meiss Meadows.

Monkeyflower There are 11 species of this plant in the Tahoe area, all having flowers that supposedly resemble little monkey faces. The most common are the pink Lewis’s monkeyflower and the yellow common monkeyflower. They favor the banks of small streams or seeps throughout the Tahoe area.

Monkshood This relatively uncommon plant is found in moist areas. Its large deep purple flower resembles a monk’s cowl. A tall plant that can reach 6 feet, monkshood grows among the tremendous variety of flowers found near Marlette Lake as well as in the Page Meadows area.

Shooting Stars Found in moist meadow areas, shooting stars have delicate petals that bend back to expose their darker stamens, thus making them like stars streaking across the night sky. The alpine shooting star has pink flowers, while the Jeffrey’s has a purple to pink flower with a black point and a small band of yellow just above the black.