Snowberry is easily identified; it berries looks like snow; walk up to them and think they have a covering of snow.  And they stay on long after other berries are gone; they are food for very hungry birds in the Winter.  An understory plant, it is found along the Gardens paths.  A smaller version, the Trailing Snowberry, also called Creeping Snowberry, is most likely found in areas that are bogs, ponds, and streams. It, too, is found by Kiosk 01.  A Shrub and a member of the Caprifoliaceae Family, it grows by the pond outfall.  Pilchuck Learning Center’s sponsored Western Washington State University SAM Project extinction possibility is slight; abundant, native to Cascadia.

http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Symphoricarpos+mollis
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Symphoricarpos%20albus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphoricarpos_mollis
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SYHE
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-01.pdf
http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/botany-and-herbarium/collections/database/results.php?Genus=Symphoricarpos&Species=mollis&SourcePage=search.php&IncludeSynonyms=Y&SortBy=DESC&SortOrder=Year

Both Trailing Snowberry and the bush/shrub Snowberry are the color:

white
yellow
red

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