Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Coast Manroot (Bigroot, Manroot)

Marah oreganus - Locally common, all spring, perennial, 3-20 feet. Vine scrambling over shrubs or small trees. Stems with dense flexible prickles, tendrils branched, attached at leaf axil. Leaf 6-8 in. across, heart-shaped at base, divided palmately into 5-7 pointed lobes, maple-like. Flowers white, deeply cup-shaped, with 5 lobes, at stalk top. Fruit widely oval, tapering to point at tip, streaked dark green, covered with small prickles, Grows in forest edges, moist fields, from coast to 6000 ft, Fruit kook like cucumbers but are bitter, not good to eat. Native