About 20cm tall. Is it a kind of Disporum or prosartes smithii? Trying to ID it myself but not sure. Thx.
How it looks like a Polygonatum sp? It's classic. Yeah, I see google image search and the appearance of clusters of white drooping flowers, but the linear array in your pic is what I'd see in a field trip ID. Using the internet to ID stuff is problematic. Sometimes the pics and descriptions are not really backed up by knowledge and comparisons. Of course, I use it all the time. But just like in my non-botanical areas of expertise, a broader sampling of data is better, and it's important to check out the provenance of the info. So for wild flowers, I'd go for the botany sites, the state/province horticulture sites, or perhaps a native plants website, and keep away from information coming from, say, a camping enthusiast or a pinterest collection.
Sorry, I meant how you identified it. I tried to use some botany sites and keys to id it but not very successful, just learning.
well, Tyrlych has an extensive memory or affinity or education, whatever, usually right. Possibly a handful of others here immediately knew too. I have an amateur interest with some rather obscure areas that have exposed me to Solomon's seal, as is the common name that I learned as a child. To learn stuff like this takes repetition, sometimes mnemonics, lots of reading, field work even if that means looking out your windows with binoculars. Discussion with others helps, too. Oh, and heaps of critical thinking. When you learn the structures of plants, and start to classify them, and then find that the old nomenclature has changed, (and then learn that it's not the vining habit, the purple stems and the wet environment that makes the hypothetical plant, but the flower, or more specifically the female flower, that made the reclassification necessary) you begin to realize that some of it is rather fluid and the only constant is change. So how did Tyrlych come up with Polygonatum? I'm guessing that with the pine tree in the pic, we know the soil is likely acid, and likely sandy, that BC and that pic itself are kinda damp, then shapes of things we've seen before, and range of species, time of year, all combine to pull up Polygonatum.
