My bad - turns out it's a species I've seen before, but always at the beach! This plant seems to like to live in the hardest places - rock, little soil, difficult conditions.

Camera:	Nikon D2x
Date:	Friday, July 1st, 2005 at 1:23 PM
Exposure:	1/200 sec at f7.1
ISO:	100 asa
Lens:	105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor at 105mm (equivalent field of view of a 157.5mm lens on a 35mm camera)
Scientific Name:	species related to Potentilla villosa (villous cinquefoil)
Tag:	flower, alpine
Larger image:	1999 x 1331
Raw image:	4296 x 2860