One of my favorite plants.  Grows everywhere in my area.   

When I'm out seed hunting I take fresh yarrow leaves with me.  Excellent for stopping bleeding in the event of a cut.

Found growing in shady areas with moist to wet soils, open forest or dry slopes.  Leaves are coarsely toothed with deeply lobed margins, white flowers which are followed by green berries turning to red or white in the fall.

Berries are poisonous except for birds which are the plants main distributors.

Blue green foliage, strap like.  Pale pink flowers form in a cluster on top of a nodding stalk.  Hence the Wild Nodding Onion name.  Naturalizes readily.

I am amazed at where I've found these growing in the wild, sides of mountains out of what appears to be solid rock.  I would guess that it the ground squirrels that are disdributing them there.

All parts of this plant are edible.  Can be used as an odorous pest repellent.

Deer proof!

Green Alder is a member of the birch family (Betulaceae).  

A shrub growing 1-3 metres.  

The catkins are rich in protein and can be used soups, salads, stews, also as a spice.  

I will add that I have eaten the fresh catkins while out on seed hunts, satisfying and delicious.

River Alder, also a member of the Birch family.

Large shrub or small tree.  Found mostly along riverbanks and lakeshores indicating it likes wet conditions.  However I have found this is areas completely away from any water, and they are flourishing. 

The Blackfoot produced a yellow dye from the catkins and a orange/red dye from the inner bark which they used to color hides.  

Saskatoon, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, alder-leaf shadbush, dwarf shadbush, chuckley pear, or western juneberry

These are growing all along the tree line in my neighborhood.  I was hard pressed to collect as much seed as I did, only because I had to sample so many.     

Saskatoon berries were an important part of the Indignous people's diet.  The Blackfoot mixed saskatoons with buffalo fat and blood to make a favorite dessert. Saskatoons were also a major ingredient in pemmican.  

Sweet-flowered Androsace

What a wonderful little thing and it is incredibly hardy.  It is mat forming and when in full bloom, a mass of tiny white blooms.  The largest mat of Androsace I've seen to date, at about a square foot, is also in one of the harshest spots that I visit.  

Note: I've had this in my garden for 4 years.  It is increasing quickly and flowers well but it does not set good seed.  The plants in the wild set abundant seed.  Could it be a polinator I don't have in my yard?  Curious. 

Canada Anemone

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Long-fruited Anemone  

Grows on dry prairie grasslands and open woodlands.  Flowers are creamy tp greenish white.

Cut-leaved Anemone or Windflower

Flowers range in colour, white, yellow, bluish, pink to red or mottled.   I'm not sure what determines the colour, I've witnessed mostly pink to white / pink mottled.  Could be that's attributed to the soils here?  

Alpine Pussytoes

I'm very fond of these mat forming little plants.  Woolly leaves with woolly haired stems. The tiny clusters of flowers resemble cat's paws hence the "pussytoes" name.

Common Pussy-toes

These grow in a massive colony about 2 km from home.  It's quite lovely to see them in bloom.