Water and Marsh Plants   -  Traditional          

Arrowhead            Bulrush              Cattail            Pond Weed         Seaweed        

Sedges                 Sphagnum Moss          Wild Rice

 

Arrowhead

 

 

 

       

 

 

Bulrush                                                                                   

   

 

Bulrush in Winter

   

 

 

 

Bulrushes at Buffalo Lake, Alberta

 

 

 

Young Cattails                                                            

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Green Cattail Spike                     

                  

 

Ripening Cattail Spikes

 

Cattails near Creston, B.C.

 

 

 

 

Cattails in winter

 

 

Floating Duckweed

 

 

Seaweed  - the seaweeds are brownish green in colour, but the small oval green objects are sea anemones, which are animals - not plants

 

Seaweeds on the seashore - the long seaweed (bull kelp) was washed up on shore, but the other seaweeds are growing on the rocks. 

 

Seaweed washed up on the seashore

 

 

Seaweed at low tide

 

 

Bull Kelp washed up on seashore at Pacific Rim National Park, BC

 

Bull Kelp growing in the sea

 

 

Seaweeds, with herrings in the background.

 

 

Sedge

          

 

 

 

Awned Sedge

 

 

Sedges growing in an Alberta Foothills Marsh

 

 

 

 

Sphagnum Moss

 

 

Lily Pads at Creston, B.C.

 

  

 

Water weeds growing in the Bow River

 

 

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