Maianthemum stellatum (Smilacina stellata)
False Solomon's Seal

Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, shaded area with sandy soil near river (10 to 30 meters)

Flowers:

5 to 15 white flowers in a simple raceme, raceme 2 to 8 cm; tepals narrowly oblong or lanceolate, 4 to 7 mm, alike; filament slender, less than the tepals; superior ovary; 3 lobed stigma

Leaves:

all cauline, alternate; lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, 5 to 17 cm, sessile and clasping at the base

Plant:

perennial; stem erect, growing straight or slightly zig-zag, 30 to 70 cm tall. Traditionally the berries were eaten by the Okanagon and Thompson.

Habitat:

moist woods and streambanks to rocky, well drained and often exposed hillsides

Distribution of species:

Alaska to California on both sides of the Cascades, east to the Atlantic coast, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, Arizona and Nevada

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