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Canada columbine, american columbine, red columbin
This perennial plant has a fragile 30 to 60 cm long stalk. Its leaves are thin and deeply divided.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyRanunculaceae -
Canada fly-honeysuckle
This 90 to 150 cm tall shrub has a long, thin trunk. The edges of its thin, opposite, oval leaves are covered with hairs. They are green both above and beneath.
Plant formBroad-leaved shrubFamilyCaprifoliaceae -
Canada goldenrod
This plant grows up to 1.5 m tall. Its stem bears thin leaves with three prominent veins. The yellow flowers are grouped in inflorescences borne on bent branches.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Canadian bunchberry, bunchberry dogwood
This tiny plant, 8 to 20 cm high, often forms colonies. It has a single stem, bearing six toothless leaves with prominent veins.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyCornaceae -
Canadian burnet
This tall (1 to 1.5 m) plant has upright, green or sometimes red stems that are hairy at the base. The stems end in a long spike of white flowers.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyRosaceae -
Canadian maidenhair, common maidenhair
The leaves, or fronds, of this fern are fine and deeply divided. Canadian maidenhair fern is of average size (0.5 m) and forms clumps in dense colonies.
Plant formFernFamilyPteridaceae -
Canadian wild ginger
This plant has two hairy heart- or kidney-shaped leaves that are 10 to 18 cm long, growing directly from the rhizome. The rhizome is green and grows just at or immediately under the surface.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAristolochiaceae -
Cardinal flower
This plant grows 50 to 120 cm tall. It has narrow leaves. Its flowers are bright red, and sometimes pink or white.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyCampanulaceae -
Cat's claw
This vine produces tendrils resembling the claws of a cat. Its flowers are yellow. Its long thin fruit may be up to 1 m long.
Plant formVine, climbing shrubFamilyBignoniaceae -
Choke cherry, wild cherry
This 3 to 10 m tall shrub has a slender, twisted and inclined trunk. Its bark is smooth and thin, with a pronounced odour.
Plant formBroad-leaved shrubFamilyRosaceae -
Christmas fern
This average-sized (40 cm) fern grows in very sparse colonies. It is easy to recognize because its segments have a raised thumb-like excrescence at their base.
Plant formFernFamilyDryopteridaceae -
Cigar Calathea, Cigar plant
This plant grows to 2 to 3 m. Its attractive leaves are 50 to 100 cm long and 25 to 60 cm wide. Its inflorescence consists of several spikes 10 cm long with red-brown bracts and yellow flowers.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyMarantaceae