Here you see an elusive native wildflower that Henry David Thoreau said is “rarely met with.” It’s Pale Corydalis (Corydalis sempervirens), also known as Pink Corydalis and Rock Harlequin.
It’s ½-inch tubular flowers are anything but pale; they’re shocking pink and glaring yellow and dangle in the wind. Its many-lobed leaves and stalks, however, are a ghostly bluish green:
The plant is a biennial in that it grows stalks and leaves one year and flowers and fruits the next. It’s usually found (by lucky and keen-eyed wildflower lovers) in areas that have ledges, although I’ve seen it in fields.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 9 and 10, 2023.)