White Flowers
(
Low, Matted, or Creeping Plants )
Rose Family (Rosaceae)
White Mountain Avens
Dryas octopetala and D. integrifolia
Season: Mid-June to mid-August
Habitat: Subalpine on both sides of Continental Divide
Height: Creeping Plant
Description: The mountain avens are easily identified by their spreading carpet of oval, evergreen, round-toothed leaves. The leaves are shiny green above, and light below. The flowers grow from short stalks, and are white with 8 petals. The centre of the plant is yellow. The flowers are approximately 2 cm in diametre. Later, they are replaced by a fuzzy seed-head as each seed is attached to a feathery plume.
Look for the white mountain avens on dry gravel washes where few other plants are able to survive.
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