Pacific Starflower

 Star flower

Star flower is a rather rare beauty in a redwood forest and it looks like another small flower that adorns the floors of the forest alongside with redwood sorrel and candy flower. This small flower can be seen on a short stem with whorled leaves.

 Star flower close-up

Be aware that as usual there are several plants called starflower. Therefore we'll give its botanical name: Trientalis borealis (also called Trientalis latifolia). It looks like there is a dispute about the family to which it belongs. According to some botanical nomenclatures the plant belongs to the family Myrsinaceae.