Observed location: Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, WA

Native range: western US (SW Oregon to NW California)

• mountain stream-sides in woodlands
• wetlands/streambanks
• co-exists in mixed evergreen forests, yellow pine forests, Douglas-fir forests, and wetland-riparian areas

Key characteristics:

• inflorescence – rounded cyme of numerous white/pink flowers on flower stem (up to 2 meters long)

• peltate (as the specific epithet suggests), rounded, deeply lobed, toothed leaves

Tools/resources used to identify:

• Arboretum’s tag
• iNaturalist
• Wikipedia
• Calflora
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• additional image searches to compare/verify