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Violets
There are some 20 species in the Viola genus in Québec. These small plants (5 to 20 cm tall) have characteristic, usually heart-shaped, long-stalked, toothed leaves.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyViolaceae -
Wall pepper
This plant grows in dense grassy clumps. Its sterile branches are horizontal and overlapping, while the flower-bearing branches are upright. It has very thick, oval, stalkless leaves.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyCrassulaceae -
Warsczewica chamaedorea
This single-stemmed palm grows 4 to 5 m tall. Its stem ranges from 1.5 to 3.5 cm in diameter. It bears 4 to 8 pinnate leaves. The fruit is black when ripe and 7 mm in diameter.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Water avens
This plant grows 30 to 60 cm tall. Its leaves are divided into irregular lobes, with those at the top being larger and rounded. The flowers have a purple calyx and cream-coloured petals.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyRosaceae -
Water lettuce
This floating plant with no apparent stem has leaves arranged in a dense rosette. The hairy, thick and spongy leaves are 5 to 17 cm long and 2 to 7 cm wide.
Plant formHerbaceous aquatic plantFamilyAraceae -
West Indian mahogany
This large tree grows up to 30 m tall. Its trunk is ramified near the top. Its leaves are formed of 2 to 5 shiny dark green leaflets, each 2 to 6 cm long.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyMeliaceae -
White ash, American ash
This 15 to 20 m tall tree has a straight trunk that is bare over most of its length. Its bark is light grey or brownish and furrowed into firm intersecting ridges in a regular diamond pattern.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyOleaceae -
White baneberry
This plant has a stalk 30 to 40 cm long. Its compound leaves are divided into deeply cut oval leaflets. Its small white flowers are borne in an elongated terminal cluster.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyRanunculaceae -
White snakeroot
The stem of this plant is highly ramified and grows 30 to 120 cm tall. Its leaves are opposite, stalked, oval, thin and sharply toothed.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
White spruce, skunk spruce
This 20 to 40 m tall tree has broad, four-sided needles, with rounded tips, 1 to 2.5 cm long.
Plant formConiferFamilyPinaceae -
Whorled wood aster
The zigzagging stem of this aster may be 30 to 100 cm tall. Its alternate leaves are thin and divided, ending in a narrow point.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyCompositae -
Wild leek
The leaves of wild leek resemble those of lily-of-the-valley and disappear before the plant flowers.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAmaryllidaceae