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  • Viola spp.

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Violaceae
  • Sedum acre

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Crassulaceae
  • Chamaedorea warscewiczii H. A. Wendl.

    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 form
    Palm
    Family
    Arecaceae
  • Geum rivale

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Rosaceae
  • Pistia stratiotes L.

    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 form
    Herbaceous aquatic plant
    Family
    Araceae
  • Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.

    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 form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Meliaceae
  • Fraxinus americana

    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 form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Oleaceae
  • Actea pachypoda

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Ranunculaceae
  • Eupatorium rugosum

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Asteraceae (Compositae)
  • Picea glauca

    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 form
    Conifer
    Family
    Pinaceae
  • Oclemena acuminata (anc.: Aster acuminatus)

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Compositae
  • Allium tricoccum

    Wild leek

    The leaves of wild leek resemble those of lily-of-the-valley and disappear before the plant flowers.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Amaryllidaceae