Common Name: Wild valerian / Sitka valerian
(Plant with white flowers and 3 leaflets at centre).
Family: Caprifoliaceae (Valerian family)
Information: A perennial with woody rhizomatous stem base, opposite leaves. Common at mid to high elevations in moist habitats along streams, in meadow, and in open subalpine forest (Pojar & MacKinnon 2014).
Photo: Common in a mesic alpine meadow at ca. 2150 m in the basin for North Cinnabar Creek, S Chicotin Mtns. N Hewitt July 28, 2019
Sources and additional resources:
Pojar, J. & MacKinnon, A. (2014). Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon & Alaska. Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.
Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Valeriana%20sitchensis. Accessed: 2020-05-28.
