Look closely! This plant’s tiny flower is intricate, delicate, and nearly invisible! The name ‘goldthread” is fitting as the stamens, and even petals, are thin and thread-like. The shiny, waxy leaves form a lovely green ground cover under the Douglas-firs at Silver Falls.

Coptis laciniata

Cut-leaved Goldthread

Description:

This plant grows in seeps, streambanks, often among mosses on wet sites in conifer forests, below 3000 ft.
The stems are short and stout. The leaves evergreen and divided into 3 triangular toothed lobes.
Flowers are white, and fall early leaving many thread-like stamens.