Yellow Mountain Avens

Thank you for buying a native plant from Windflower Native Plant Nursery. Your purchase helps create a bit of Montana natural history in your own yard as well as restore a piece of native Montana. This plant was grown by seed I collected locally in an ethical manner.

Yellow Mountain Avens Dryas drummondii Rose Family

Color: yellow
Plant height: stalks are 2 – 10 inches long, leaves form a ground cover
Bloom time: June - August
Native habitat: gravel bars along mountain rivers and streams, can be found near treeline on rocky slopes

A great addition to a rock garden this plant is as pretty is seed as it is in bloom. The feathery styles (tails on the seed) are twisted at first, then unwind and look like loose cotton. The seeds “twist” themselves into the ground by curling when wet and straightening when dry. Yellow mountain avens was used as a heart medicine by the Salish (Thompson) and as a drink to prevent kidney and bladder trouble by the (Suswap) Salish.

Windflower Native Plant Nursery
PO Box 306 West Glacier, MT 59936
1.406.387.5527 t
ddivoky@centurytel.net
www.windflowernativeplants.com

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