QUEENCUP 
Clintonia uniflora (Menzies) Kunth 
Queencup is a lovely member of the Lily Family. It is found only 
in places where conditions are exactly to its liking, delighting in 
dense shade under the trees where mosses flourish and the earth 
is always cool and moist. The single flower stem rises between a pair 
of deep green leaves, similar to those of lily-of-the-valley, and beats 
a single pure white flower with yellow stamens. 
Queencup ranges from Montana to California, and north to 
southeastern Alaska. | 
The specimen sketched grew neat Emerald Lake, seven miles 
from Field, British Columbia, at an altitude of 4,500 feet. 
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