This charming evergreen creeps along the ground with rooting stems and produces pairs of delicate, fragrant pale pink, bell-shaped flowers in spring.  3” x 12”.  Grow in part to full shade in moist, well-drained, humus rich soil.  Hardy to –30 degrees F.   This subspecies is found along the eges of coniferous forests in the Cascades north to Alaska. Caprifoliaceae

Linnaea borealis is a circumpolar woodland species that was named in 1737 for Carl Linneaus, the father of taxonomy - the naming of both plant and animal species.