Twistedstalk

Streptopus lanceolatus, the rose twisted-stalk or rosybells, is a slender perennial herb in the Liliaceae (sometimes placed in Colchicaceae or Liliaceae sensu lato), native to cool, moist coniferous and mixed forests across much of northern North America from the Atlantic provinces and Appalachians west to the Pacific Northwest. Plants arise from a short, knotty rhizome bearing thick fibrous roots and produce a single, slightly zigzag, finely pubescent stem 15 to 80 centimetres tall, usually branching once or twice above. The alternate sessile leaves are lanceolate to ovate, parallel-veined, 4 to 10 centimetres long, with finely ciliate margins. Solitary or paired bell-shaped flowers hang on slender, sharply bent (twisted) pedicels from the leaf axils on the lower side of the stem; the six tepals are rose-pink with darker veins, recurved at the tips. The fruit is a translucent red, many-seeded berry that follows the flower on its persistent twisted pedicel.