Vegetation Life

Indian Plum - Rosales Rosaceae Oemleria cerasiformis     Identification & Description: A decidious shrub growing to 2.5m by 4m . It is hardy to zone 6. It is in flower from March to April. The flowers are dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found [...]

Black Twinberry - Dipsacales Caprifoliaceae Lonicera involucrata       Identification & Description: A decidious shrub growing to 1.2m at a medium rate. It is hardy to zone 4 and is not frost tender. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from July to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both [...]

Common Wild Rose - Rosales Rosaceae Rosa acicularis Identification & Description: This perennial, shrubby plant has stout and branched stems growing up to 2 meters high, although it does not reach this height in wild lowbush blueberry fields. The upper branches are smooth except for scattered thorns. These thorns are stout, flattened at the [...]

Devil's Club - Umbellales Araliaceae Oplopanax horridus     Identification & Description: The botanical name for Devils club, Echinopanax horridum, literally means, prickly porcupine ginseng. What an accurate description! Devils Club does belong to the same family as Oriental ginseng, and like ginseng, it is used as a body balancing and system strengthening tea. [...]

Dwarf Rose - Rosales Rosaceae Rosa gymnocarpa Identification & Description: A decidious shrub growing to 3m. It is hardy to zone 6. It is in flower in June. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees. We rate it 2 out of 5 for usefulness. The plant [...]

False Azalea - Ericales Ericaceae Menziesia ferruginea     Identification & Description: It is a traggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers Leaf: Alternate, simple, deciduous, pinnately veined, obovate to elliptical, 1 1/2 to 4 inches long, dark green above and paler below, [...]

Falsebox - Celastrales Celastraceae Pachistima myrsinites Identification & Description: Falsebox is a low growing, evergreen shrub that may reach 3 feet in height. It has many branches that are lined with small oval leaves with serrated edges. The flowers are tiny, reddish to purple and form very small clusters at the leaf bases. Falsebox [...]

Hardback - Rosales Rosaceae Spiraea douglasii Identification & Description: Rose spirea stems are round, leaves are alternate, oval to oblong, on short petioles, with toothed margins from the midpoint to the tip, and whitish on the lower surface; 5-petaled, rose-pink flowers occur in a dense panicle, 5-15 cm long. Leaves: Deciduous, alternate, compound leaves [...]