Identificaciones de jengaia

2019 INaturalist observation #8.
Family: Cornaceae – Dogwood family
Genus: Cornus L. – dogwood
Species: Cornus canadensis L. – bunchberry dogwood

Cornus canadensis L.; Bunchberry: Low perennial herb, with a creeping rootstock, forming colonies; stems simple, erect,8-18 cm high; principal leaves in an apparent whorl of 4-6 at the summit, subsessile, elliptic-ovate to obovate or rhombic, tapering to the base, pinnately veined with the secondary veins curved to the apex; lower leaves reduced and in remote pairs; flower-cluster on a short peduncle; bracts of involucre usually 4, white to cream-colored, greenish when immature, ovate, 1-2 cm long; drupes bright red, globost, 6-8 mm broad. 2n=22.
Stems erect, 5–20 cm with paired, narrowly elliptic, membranous bracts below. Herbage strigose. Leaves subsessile, paler beneath, 1–7 cm long, 4 to 7 whorled at stem tips, usually smaller pair below. Inflorescence a dense, capitate, hemispheric cyme subtended by 4 white, ovate, petal-like bracts, 6–25 mm long. Flowers: petals 1–2 mm long. Drupe red, 4–8 mm long. Deep, moist, coniferous forest, rarely on hummocks in fens; valleys to lower subalpine
This specimen was found within the Montane Subregion of the Rocky Mountain Natural Region. Within the Oldman watershed of the South Saskatchewan Basin. North of Ohagen road, west of Castle Falls road and northwest of 774. Mixed decidous and coniferous forest. South facing slope, 5%. Brunisolic soils. Subhygric soils. Shaded understorey.
Plant community: Pinus contorta, spruce spp., valeriana sitchensis, Angelica dawsonii, Veronica serypyllifolia, Lonicera involucrata, orchidacea spp.