Identification: What stringy white flowers, bedding plants?

These stringy white flowers are maybe 3cm across, in inflorescences that might be 20cm across. The flowers would be about 60cm high, except that they flop over. I saw them on the Rhododendron path in Stanley Park.

 

Looks like Trautvetteria - Wikipedia -- there should be some of these in bloom in the Rainforest Garden soon (more shade than these ones are getting)

 

Thank you! I see there is only one species - Trautvetteria caroliniensis - should be good in the Carolinian garden too, or is that just shrubs and trees? Ranunculaceae. The "strings" are all stamens - there are no petals.

 

Yes, it would be good there as well. It is one of the few pan-North American wildflowers that I know of (same species in the Carolinas as in the forests near Port Renfrew).

 

I visited the Trautvetteria caroliniensis today - it took me forever to come up with the name again.


Right next to it was an Astrantia major that from the leaves up just to below the flowers looked identical to me. But Astrantia is in the Apiaceae family, and Trautvetteria is in Ranunculaceae. Admittedly, the flowers look nothing alike, but it's not like the Trautvetteria flowers look anything like other Ranunculaceae. Except for Actaea.