Northern Cryptantha
Oreocarya glomerata
Borage family (Boraginaceae)
Butter Candle has a showy of white, 5-petaled flowers. The plant is sometimes called White Forget-Me-Nots in reference to the flower with a prominent eye and yellow center. There are dozens of species of Cryptantha and they are often difficult to tell apart because most are identified by minute differences in their . Compare Buttercandle with Miner's Candle.
A perennial plant lives and blooms for many years.
lobe -- A rounded parts of a leaf (or other organ).
ovate -- Oval, egg-shaped, with a tapering point.
basal leaves -- a leaf that grows lowest on the stem of a plant.
throat -- The opening of a flower.
spatulate -- spoon-shaped.
a small nut. A nut being a hard, dry fruit containing only one seed that does not open at maturity.
fruit -- any seed-bearing structure in flowering plants. It is formed from the ovary after flowering.
biennial -- a plant which lives for two years, producing a basal rosette of leaves the first year and a full plant, flower, and seed the second year followed by the death of the entire plant at the end of the second year.
A spike is an unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are without stalks.