White Flowers


Western Trillium Trillium ovatum Perennial plant. To 45cm tall. 3 to 5 triangular-oval leaves to 18cm long.Showy white flowers turning purple with age. Moist to wet woodlands, streambanks in mainly shaded areas. .		Field Chickweed Cerastium arvense Perennial, tufted or clumped, stems trailing to ascending, 5-50cm long. Leaves opposite 1-3cm long. White flowers on hairy stalks, 5 petals deeply notched at tip. Dry ground, rocky slopes, meadows and bluffs. .

Dogwood Cornus canadensis A perennial low trailing plant 5 to 25 cm tall. .The leaves are short stalked forming a terminal whorl of 4-7 .The flowers are small and greenish white. Surrounded by 4 white bracts.Moist forests and forest openings, often growing on tree trunks and logs. .		White Marsh Marigold Caltha leptosepala A perennial flower growing to 40 cm. The leaves are mostly basal and as wide as they are long. They are round to kidney shaped’ The flowers are showy white, normally two to a stem. High elevations in bogs, fens, wet forests. .

Vanilla Leaf Achlys triphylla Perennial. Spreading widely by slender rhizomes. Sends up single leaves along the rhizomes. Leaves are 10 to 30cm, all basal. Flowers, white, small, lacking sepals and petals. Usually found in shady forests. .		Buck Bean Menyanthes trifoliata Perennial. Aquatic to semi aquatic plant. Leaves, alternate, crowded near base of flowering stem. Flowers are white usually tinged with pink. Surface of petals have long hairs. Bogs and fens, marshes and ponds. .

Fools Onion Brodiaea hyacinthina Perennial to 70cm tall. Leaves are grass like and are present when in flower. Flowers are mostly white with a greenish vein and bell shaped in clusters. Open grassy areas at low elevations to mountain meadows. .		Queen Ann's Lace Daucus carota Biennial from bitter taproot. Stem singly 20-120cm tall. Fern like leaves and lacy 5-15cm long. Flowers are white or yellowish, central one of the umbel commonly pink or purple. Found in pastures, clearings, roadsides. .

Coltsfoot Petasites palmatus Perennial with numerous stems to 50cm tall. Leaves are deeply divided and mainly basal. Stem leaves reduced to bracts. Flowers are creamy white with many heads on often woolly stems. Wet forests, clearings, moist roadsides.		Deer Cabbage Fauria crista-galli Perennial plant, its flowering stems leafless.Leaves. Kidney to heart shape and all basal.Wider than they are long. The petals are fused at the base the lobes have wavy flanges.Enjoys bogs and swamps, wet meadows and seepage areas in forests. .

Death Camas Zygadenus venonosus Perennial from oval bulbs. Stems to 60cm tall. Creamy white flowers are bell shaped with green glands at the base of the petals.Many in compact terminal cluster.Open forest, damp meadows and grassy slopes. .		Sitka Valerian Valeriana sitchensis Perennial. Stems are leafy, square in cross section, succulent, 30-120cm tall. Large l eaves are stalked and divided into 3-7 coarsely toothed leaflets. White-pale pink flowers in dense cluster. Moist meadows. .

Seaside Rein Orchid Platanthera greenei A perennial from fibrous roots with erect stems to 80 cm tall Leaves are in basal pairs and soon wither as it flowers late spring to summer. Flowers, white, sweet smelling with a long spur to 2 cm. Low elevations in grassy areas and rocky slopes.		False Solomon's Seal Smilacina racemosa Perennial plant to 1m tall. Often in clumps. Leaves are broad, elliptical, 7-20cm long alternating along stem.White flowers and red fruits, sometimes dotted with purple. Moist forests, streambanks, meadows, subalpine. .

White Rhododendron Rhododendron albiflorum Erect, slender, branched 1 to 2.5m tall. Leaves, deciduous, clusters along branch especially at tip, yellowish green. White to creamy flowers cup shaped. Common at most subalpine elevations. .		White Campion Silene alba Perennial plant also called Lychnis alba. Leaves are stalkless, opposite and egg to lance shaped.Flowers are white and have male and female on separate plants.Introduced plant in fields and waste places. .

Woodland Star Lithophragma parviflorum Perennial. Stems 10-40cm tall. Hairy, usually purplish towards the top with three leaves. Flowers white to pink, petals 5-10mm, usually deeply lobed at the tip. Dry open grassy slopes, coastal bluffs. .		Fendler's Waterleaf Hydrophyllum fendleri .

Queens Cup Clintonia uniflora Perennial from creeping rhizomes to 15cm tall. Leaves, 2 or 3 are shiny and slightly fleshy. 15 to 25cm long. Flowers are large, white, and usually one on a solitary stalk. Moist forests open clearings. .		Salal Gaultheria shallon Perennial creeping to erect shrub, spreads by layering.Leavesare evergreen and leathery and finely toothed.Flowers are urn shaped and white to pinkish, the stalks bend downwards.Rocky bluffs, coniferous forests from low to medium elevations. .

Saskatoon Berry Amelanckier alnifolia Shrub to over 5m high. Leaves. Deciduous and round to oval. Flowers are showy, white and in leafy clusters Shorelines, meadows, thickets and forest open areas.		Cow Parsnip Heracleum lanatum Perennial, stems singly, hollow 1-3m tall. Large leaves stalked and compound, divided into 3 and palmately lobed. Flowers small, white, numerous in umbrella cluster. Found at roadsides, meadows and thickets. .

Olympic Moutain Aster Aster paucicapitarus Perennial plant to 60cm tall. Leaves are small, 4cm long and glandular hairy. Flowers are white ray flowers Meadows and rocky slopes to high elevations. .		Saskatoon Berry Amelanckier alnifolia Shrub to over 5m high. Leaves. Deciduous and round to oval. Flowers are showy, white and in leafy clusters Shorelines, meadows, thickets and forest open areas. .

Globflower Trollius laxus		Goatsbeard Aruncus sylvester A perennial plant from creeping rhizomes to 2m tall. Several stems. Large leaves that become smaller higher up the plant. Three times compound. The white flowers are very tiny. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Grows in roadsides and edges of forests and streams. .