Synonyme: Boschniakia glabra.
English: Nothern groundcone.
Genus: 3 species.
Region: western North America, extreme northeastern Asia.
Habitat: mid elevations, alongside rivers and streams, moisture is abundant.
Botany: parasitic herb; holoparasitic via haustoria on Alnus and many other plants like Betula, Salix, Vaccinium, Picea, Chamaedaphne, salal, huckleberries, manzanita, madrone; they look like pine cones lying on the ground, especially when they are brown in color; inflorescence brown with shades of yellow, red, and purple, a few inches tall, pine-cone-shaped or cylindrical, a tightly packed column of thick cup-shaped flowers; propagates itself through water flow; bears are known to have eaten its starchy roots, or tubers.
B. rossica grows between 6–12 inches, with two or three stems per individual. It has tall slender stalks. The roots grow horizontally from a main bulbous mass. It can vary from very dark maroon to reddish brown in color. This is a perennial plant, and flowers every summer. It can produce up to 300,000 seeds. B. rossica very much looks like a pine cone growing up out of the ground.