Red Clintonia
Clintonia andrewsiana
First posted July 31, 2004 Last updated
August 1, 2004
Red Clintonia with a native bee
Photographed April 25, 2004 by David
Nelson
This plant is just above Austin Creek Road, at the north
end of camp, but not as far as the access road to the
upper camp property.
This beautiful plant is a joy for months,
from the wonderful and shocking red trumpet-shaped flowers
on a tall, naked 24 inch stem in the spring to the dark
blue berries that can be seen through the end of July.
It has glossy green basal leaves that have a superficial
resemblance to trilium, but usually has more than three
leaves. It is found in many of the places that trilium
is found: shaded, moist areas of the redwood forest.
Red Clintonia berries are a very dark
blue
Photographed July 23, 2004, bewteen the tent platforms
in Boys Camp, across the footbridge.
References
The Muir
Woods Flowers page has a photograph of
red clintonia.
The Cal
Flora website has about 20 photographs
of red clintonia.
The Wildflowers of the Central California Coast has
this
picture of red clintonia, as well as being
a great
site for all of our wildflowers.
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