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Prosartes hookeri

Common Names: Drops-of-Gold; Fairy-bells, Hooker's Fairybell

SYN: Disporum hookeri

USDA lists it as P. hookeri var. hookeri. ITIS and eFloras.org no longer recognize the past (highly variable) three varieties:
var. hookeri (coastal California northwards)
var. oreganum (northern California north and northwestward)
var. trachyandrum (Sierra Nevada northwest to Oregon)

Note one to pair of white to creamy white hanging bell-shaped flowers with spreading tips, narrow lance-shaped leaves on greenish stems.

west North Cascades
TRAIL: Yellow Aster Butte
HABITAT: mid-elevation avalanche (open rocky) meadow
ELEVATION: 1,175 m (3,860 ft)
BLOOM TIME: 20-MAY
Prosartes hookeri
Prosartes hookeri
Prosartes hookeri
Prosartes hookeri