WHITE GLOBEFLOWER 



Trollius albiflorus (Gray) Rydberg 



Alpine meadows, the wet margins of streams, and the edges of 

 melting snow patches are 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 through 

 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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