Shrubs  - Traditional                    

Buck Brush                Caragana                   Cotoneaster                 Dogwood              

Hawthorn            Hazelnut          Labrador Tea            Lewis's Mockorange           Lilac            

Sagebrush                 Shrubby Cinquefoil               Wormwood

  

Buck Brush in bloom  

 

Buck Brush Fruits - they are regarded as famine food only. 

 

 

Caragana                                                                

    

 

Caragana blossoms  

 

 

Looking out from a caragana thicket.

 

 

Cotoneaster                                                                               

        

 

Cotoneaster Hedge and Geraniums

 

Dogwood 

                                                                            

                                                                                                   

 

     

 

 

 

 

Dogwood Flower                         

 

 

Dogwood Berries (fruit is not poisonous, but very bitter)

                     

 

 

Lilac

 

Lilac blossoms

 

White Lilac

 

 

 

Sagebrush at  Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, Alberta

 

Sagebrush near the Trans Canada Highway between Lytton and Cache Creek, BC

 

 

Sagebrush growing at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta

Sagebrush growing at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta

 

 

Sagebrush in bloom - with Columbia Lake, BC in the background

Field of Sagebrush in bloom - same kind as in the picture above.

 

 

Scrubby Cinquefoil 

  

                                                                  

  

 

Scrubby Cinquefoil  Bushes in Winter      

 

 

 

Beaked Hazelnut in bloom - tiny female blossom on the tip of the twig will later produce nuts  - male flowers produce the pollen. 

 

 

 

Hawthorn Bush                                                                                    

   

 

Hawthorn Berries

 

Hawthorn spikes and leaves

 

 

Labrador Tea

 

Labrador tea leaves

 

 

Wormwood

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