Columbia Kittentails

''Synthyris missurica'' is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common names tailed kittentails and mountain kittentails. It is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where it grows in moist areas in forests and other mountain and foothill habitat types. It has the widest range of any of the nine ''Synthyris''. It is often one of the first wildflowers to bloom in its mountain habitat, sometimes coming up before the snow is melted. It is a rhizomatous perennial.. more