15 cm ruler for scale

Single white flowers appear on the end of each short stem in summer, flowering stems to 8 cm tall. Flowers are star-shaped with 5 petals, flowers to 20 mm in diameter. Flowers face downwards, then as they age turn skyward, after which the petals fall off. Leaves are in whorls at the base of the plant, round to ovate, to 15 mm wide and across (not including the petiole).

Native to cool, moist wooded areas.

Took the photos July 24th, on moist, grassy ground, edge of a beaver swamp, heavy forest, Cypress Hills, about 450 km southwest of Regina, SK, and July 4th in mossy black spruce woods on the edge of a fen, Duck Mountain Provincial Park, 300 km northeast of our home in Regina, SK.

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