Allegheny Foam Flower

The Foam Flower was a hard one to identify. I asked a friend to help in discovering this flowers name. The photos in the identification guides that I have were not that helpful. It has such lovely flowers ... star like. Unlike the Star Flower which has one or two flowers the Foam Flower has a little galaxy of flowers. They grow like a ground cover and can be quite plentiful. Some say it is called the foam flower because it appears like the foam from the waves on the beach. There was so little written about this flower, I wonder why?..... To its credit, I did find that two poets mentioned the Foam Flower in their poems. That is something.

Where I found it : In wet woods down by the river