Posted today are photographs
of two plant-types I captured with my smarter-than-me-phone while on an
excursion to the mountains yesterday.
False Hellebore
False hellebore
is a striking plant with large, handsomely sculpted leaves. This plant prefers moist environments and is
easily capable of growing to a height of six feet. Pretty as the plant is, false hellebore is
poisonous from head to toe and remains poisonous throughout the growing cycle.
Queen’s Cup
Queen’s cup produces
a single but striking white flower. A
member of the lily family, queen’s cup tends to grow in thickly populated and often brushy understories. I regularly find
them in huckleberry patches. When queen’s
cup produce fruit, the result can easily be mistaken for a huckleberry. I have found a few queen’s cup “berries” in
my huckleberry bucket after an earnest picking session. And, while the queen’s cup fruit is a
favorite for grouse, it is considered poisonous to humans.
Queen’s Cup Fruit (Photo: Montana Outdoors)
—Mitchell Hegman
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