[The Buttercup Family West of the Cascade Mountains]

Baneberry, Red Baneberry, Western Red Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Baneberry with its bright red fruit, from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland....July 18, 1989.

Habitat:

Baneberry lives in moist, dark woods anßd along streambanks, primarily west of the Cascades, but eastward in moist, mountainous areas.


Baneberry from Larch Mt, Mt. Hood N.F...........June 1989.

Paul Slichter