Twinflower

Description:

Trailing evergreen. Leaves are opposite (like most plants in the honeysuckle family), small (about 1 cm long), ovate to broadly elliptic with small shallow teeth along the upper half of the margin. Flowers are trumpet-like pairs nodding down. They are pink (some whitish-pink) and bloom on a Y-shaped stalk. Fruit are dry nutlets with sticky, glandular hairs that hitch a ride on whatever animal happens by in order to disperse seeds.

Habitat:

Open or dense forests and rocky shorelines at all elevations up to timberline.

Notes:

The smell of a blooming patch of twinflower is so sweet as it wafts around.