WHITE GLOBEFLOWER 
Trollius albiflorus (Gray) Rydberg 
Alpine meadows, the wet matgins of streams, and the edges of 
melting snow patches ate the places most frequented by the white 
globeflower. It blooms so early in the season that it is usually in fruit 
before the eastern visitor arrives, though often retarded plants may 
be found in blossom even at the end of the summer, pushing thtough 
a thin sheet of ice at the border of an obstinate snowbank. The globe- 
flower belongs to the Buttercup Family, and looks much like some 
of its cousins of that group, the anemones. 
The range of this species is from Colorado to Washington, Alberta, 
and British Columbia. 
We gathered it in the meadows near Mount Assiniboine, fifty 
miles south of Banff, Alberta, at an altitude of 6,500 feet. 
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