Antique Postcard 1910s Snow Plant $20 Fine Yosemite Park Botanical Red Flower

Social History: A $20 fine in the early 1910s is equivalent to over $600 today, demonstrating how strictly early park rangers protected the rare flora:

"This is a wonderful flower of which the card though hand tinted gives almost no idea. The brightest shades are a little like its wonderful color. It is a fungus without leaves. There is a fine of $20. in Yosemite for picking it. With much love to all, Mother"

Scene: Snow Plant, a parasitic plant native to the Sierra Nevada mountains that lacks chlorophyll and forces its way through winter snow. The pre-printed text correctly notes it is found "only in the coldest places."