Clintonia uniflora

Clintonia uniflora, commonly known as bride's bonnet, queen's cup or single-flowered clintonia, is a low-growing perennial herb in the family Liliaceae native to the moist coniferous forests of western North America, from southern Alaska and British Columbia south through the Cascade, Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain ranges. The plant arises from a slender creeping rhizome and produces two to three basal, oblong to elliptic, glossy green leaves 8 to 15 cm long that are slightly hairy along the margins. A single (rarely two) showy, star-shaped white flower is borne on a leafless flowering stalk 10 to 20 cm tall in late spring to early summer. The flower has six tepals and six prominent stamens. The fruit is a distinctive bright metallic blue berry that ripens in late summer and persists into autumn, providing a striking contrast against the foliage. It is a common indicator of cool, shaded, mossy, humus-rich conifer forest floors.