bunchberry

Wet pinegrass and sunstruck lupine, midmorning in July; pipsissewa and bunchberry dogwood, cream-scented, mingling with the drier scent of paintbrush and the wet fur of a deer's belly from where it has just crashed through the sedgy marsh (that rich waterspray vaporizing in the rising warmth of the day).

Associated under-story species commonly include Vaccinium vitis-idaea (bog cranberry), Cornus canadensis (bunchberry), Hylo-comium splendens, and Pleurozium schreberi (Schreber's moss) (Strong, 2002).

Bunchberry, Comus canadensis, is a native plant that grows in the cool forests of the mountains of New York State.

Bold floral motifs as used on the later, larger gashkibidaaganag were routinely observed by Native beadwork artists from the local flora, including vines, tendrils, American white water lily (Nymphaea odorata), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), and broad-leaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia).

Within minutes, however, the trek narrowed and curved onto a more level track through a grove of giant fir trees, the surrounding forest floor covered in oxalis and other greenery, with white bunchberry blooms here and spears of vanilla leaf there.

Bunchberry (Comus canadensis), a common food of rock voles (Whitaker and Martin, 1977; Kirkland and Jannett, 1982) and other plant species associated with rock voles have ranges in Minnesota (Ownbey and Morley, 1991) extending well beyond the known range of rock voles.

If an evergreen "mulch'' is needed, consider the use of ivy (hardy English), Vinca (blue or white flowers), Pachysandra (Allegheny or Japanese Spurge), or native plants like Partridgeberry, Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Ginger (Canadian or European), heaths and heathers, or visit Garden In The Woods to view a living catalogue of native hardy plants.