Bronze Bells (Stenanthium occidentale)
Near Easy Pass, North Cascades NP, WA 8/2012.
This uncommon (and uncommonly modest) lily has a nodding raceme of bells rising from grassy onion-like leaves.
“Once you have found this curiously charming plant in the moist, shady woodlands it prefers, stop and enjoy the tangy fragrance of the flowers.” — Scotter & Flygare, Wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies.
Wahclella Falls Trail (Tanner Creek), Columbia Gorge, OR, 5/2014.
A lovely liliaceous plant, I must keep an eye out for seed on this one.
July 20, 2013 at 6:11 pm