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Tofieldia pusilla
Also called Scottish Asphodel, Scottish False Asphodel, Common False Asphodel, Least Asphodel, Small False Asphodel, Small Tofieldia, Tiny False Asphodel
Tofieldia pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Tofieldiaceae. It is also sometimes placed in the lily family, Liliaceae. Its common name is Scottish asphodel in Europe, and Scotch false asphodel in North America. The plant is native to northern North America and parts of Eurasia, its circumpolar distribution extending across Canada and the northern United States to Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe.
Zomlefer, in her 1997 paper on the Tofieldiaceae, lists the following compounds as being present in plants belonging to the family: calcium oxalate (in the form of druses and cuboidal (prismatic) crystals), chelidonic acid, tannins, saponins, and the flavonoids kaempferol and quercetin.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tofieldia pusilla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
