Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Lizard Head Trail, June 19, 2004.

There is no mistaking this plant. Finely cut parsley-like leaves are surmounted by almost leafless red flower stems from which droop pink flowers that seem to be a cross between a flower, an insect, and a science fiction character. (See Artemisia scopulorum for another alien-looking plant.) The seeds are borne on feathery plumes, as shown in the last picture below.

Linnaeus named this genus in 1753.  "Erythrocoma" is Greek for "red mane". The plant was first described by Pursh in 1814 from a plant collected  early in the 1800s by J. Bradbury in present day South Dakota.

Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Cross Mountain Trail, July 13, 2005.

Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Lizard Head Pass, June 19, 2004.

The bracts and sepals are pink; the flower petals (barely visible at the bottom of the far left and far right flowers) are every light yellow/green/white.

Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Navajo Lake Trail, June 11, 2005.

Seeds are borne at the base of feathery plumes: Prairie Smoke.