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  • Aquilegia canadensis

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Ranunculaceae
  • Lonicera canadensis

    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 form
    Broad-leaved shrub
    Family
    Caprifoliaceae
  • Solidago canadensis

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Asteraceae (Compositae)
  • Cornus canadensis

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Cornaceae
  • Sanguisorba canadensis

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Rosaceae
  • Adiantum pedatum

    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 form
    Fern
    Family
    Pteridaceae
  • Asarum canadense

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Aristolochiaceae
  • Lobelia cardinalis

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Campanulaceae
  • Macfadyena unguis-cati (L .) A. Gentry

    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 form
    Vine, climbing shrub
    Family
    Bignoniaceae
  • Prunus virginiana

    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 form
    Broad-leaved shrub
    Family
    Rosaceae
  • Polystichum acrostichoides

    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 form
    Fern
    Family
    Dryopteridaceae
  • Calathea lutea (Aubl.) G.F.W. Meyer

    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 form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Marantaceae