Alternate name: American Trailplant, Trailplant

Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family

Description A low woodland plant with delicate stalks of flowers rising above an array of large spade-shaped leaves.
Flowers: tiny, white, rayless, in sparse, branched sprays on slender stalks. Bloom June-July.
Leaves: 5" (12.5 cm) long, triangular, hairy-white below, long-stalked, in basal rosette.
Height: 25" (65 cm).

Habitat Moist, shaded, lowland to mid-elevation forests, below 6,500' (1,980 m).

Range British Columbia and Alberta south through Cascades, Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada to San Luis Obispo County, California; across northern United States to Minnesota and Michigan.