I'm looking for help on identifying a few local plants and trees. I figured that this was probably the best place to look. :D I'm interesting in wild plant foraging, and so I suspect learning to positively identify my local plants is very important. I live in St Albert, Alberta, which is just outside of Edmonton, Alberta, if that helps.
Liable to be a goldtwig willow. The grass may need to have its inflorescence and certain vegetative characters examined closely, using a manual.
Something covering your region, if nobody chimes in here try surfing "flora alberta" or other phrases seem like they might bring results.
Wild rose hips a good source of Vitamin C. Can be used to make jelly or syrup Is the grass a type of sedge. Bullrush that has dark brown poker type seed pods. http://www.forestrytas.com.au/uploa...d_identification/weedinfosheet3bullrushes.pdf This was another version I found under common name Bullrush http://www.cityoffederalway.com/fol.../northlakeaquaticweedmanagement/Bull Rush.pdf Liz
No, its not a kind of Bulrush, I'm almost sure. Its some kind of grain, could simply be wild grain blow from nearby farms. (I live on the outskirts of town.) Aren't Bulrushes also called Cattails? We have alot of those along the river here.
Not sure, but they really look like a winter version of the ones in the dam across the road minus the flower heads/seeds. They become very dry and are easily burned. A bit of a fire hazard here. They also choke water ways and dams which is a problem in drought time. Liz
Number 3 is very likely brome grass -- it strongly resembles the weedy ditch grass from my prairie youth. In Canada, bulrushes are most often Scirpus, cattails are Typha.
To me they look like the "Typha" Are the ones in the pic above growing in water or on it's edge? Thanks Daniel now I can be clear about what is what. We have so much stuff here that is not native and just plain weeds. I did come across an interesting site on reed beds to clean grey water while trying to work this out. Liz
#3 is not Typha: Leaves of Typha rarely remain erect after drying out through a prairie winter (they break midway or so and form triangles, much like in the second photograph on this page). It's definitely a grass. It'd help to know the height of the plants in the photo -- if this was a photo taken while kneeling or from a low perspective (which it seems to be to me, so that the plants are maybe 50-60cm in height), I'll still assert Bromus.
I was going to say Brome for #3 too, but wasn't sure. Try looking for these books:http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/9781551053509 http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/9781551052830. You should be able to find what you are looking for there. For foraging, try these: http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/9781551055725 http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/9781551052298 Hope that helps.
