Budding devils club in riparian environment at high elevation. Family: Araliaceae. Diagnostic features: spiked stems with sharp spines throughout. Palmately lobed leaves arranged whorled on stalk. Buds and leaves hairy. Phenological phase: vegetative. Habitat: riparian area at high elevation, alongside maidenhair ferns, buttercup, salmon berry
These little urns were growing in sparse clumps across the prairie.