queen's cup

A perennial plant (Clintonia uniflora) in the lily family, native to western North American woodlands, having a usually single white flower that produces a blue berry.

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queen's cup - plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana

bride's bonnet, Clintonia uniflora

genus Clintonia - sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae

clintonia, Clinton's lily - any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries

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