Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.

Habitat: Coniferous woods, especially ponderosa pine, moderate to mid-elevations in the mountains

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Perennial, glabrous herbs, spreading from slender rhizomes, with several leafy, sterile stems, the flowering stems usually single, reddish-brown, 10-25 cm. tall.

Leaves basal, petiolate, the blades ovate to elliptic-rotund, 2-7 cm. long, leathery, deep green on the upper surface but grayish-mottled along the main veins, the lower surface somewhat purplish, the margins thickened, entire to serrulate.

Flowers 10-25 in an elongate raceme, about 1 cm. broad; pedicels spreading, 4-8 mm. long, from lanceolate bracts of equal length; calyx 5-lobed, reddish; petals 5, distinct, yellowish to greenish-white or purplish, 6-8 mm. long; stamens 10, bent inward, the anthers without awns, inverted, opening by pores on the side of short tubes; styles bent to the side; ovary superior.

Capsule 5-celled