Adenocaulon bicolor
Trail Plant

Family: Asteraceae [Compositae] (Sunflower family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, shaded valley bottom and slopes

Flowers:

3 to 7 pistillate flowers, corolla 0.5 to 1 mm; 3 to 10 disk flowers, corolla 1.5 to 2 mm

Fruit:

5 to 8 mm, club shaped

Leaves:

petiole more or less winged; leaf blades mostly near base of plant, subentire to shallowly lobed; white tomentose below, green and glabrous above; 3 to 15 cm wide

Plant:

3 to 10 dm tall; lower plant tomentose, stalked-glandular above. Poultice of leaves applied to sores by the Cowlitz.

Habitat:

shaded woods and forests

Distribution of species:

Alaska to California, east to Montana, Colorado, and New Mexico

Distribution of genus:

6 species: western North America, Central America, southern South America, and eastern Asia worldwide