Queen's Cup
Queen's cups are a small plain white lily that often grows in vast carpets in the wet forests of the Pacific Northwest. After the flower wilts, a bright blue berry develops and although it is inedible for humans, it is eaten by grouse, who then spread the seeds for the next season.
- Copyright
- © 2011
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America, Angiosperms, C. uniflora, Central Cascades, Clintonia uniflora, County - King, Lake Elizabeth, Liliaceae, Liliales, Monocots, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Skykomish Ranger District, Stevens Pass - West, USA, United States, Washington, alpine, background, bead lily, beadlily, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, blue bead, blue-bead lily, botany, bouquet, bride's bonnet, bud, clintonia, color, countryside, field, flora, flower, flowers, fresh, green, meadow, native, natural, nature, one-flowered clintonia, perennial, plant, plants, queen's cup, queencup beadlily, rhizomatous, single-flowered clintonia, sub-alpine, subalpine, summer, west coast, white, wild, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Liliaceae (Lilies), White Wildflowers
