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Kinnikinnick

Common Name(s): Kinnikinnick, Common Bearberry, Crowberry, Mountain Cranberry, Foxberry, Mealberry

Scientific Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

First Nations Name: Kinnikinnik (Alqonquian)

Family: Ericaceae 

 

Grand Fir

Common name

Grand Fir

 

Latin name

Abies grandis

 

Hulkemel’em name

T’a'xwulhp

 

Identification

Salal

 

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Salal plant

Common Name(s):

Salal

Scientific Name(s):

Sword Fern

Sword Fern

(Polystichum munitum)

picture of sword fern in the forest

Figure 1. Fully mature sword fern in the forest (Hansen, 2012)

Common Names

Sword Fern, Shield Fern, Christmas Fern, Sword Holly Fern

(Garden Works, n.d.; Hansen, 2012)

Bracken Fern

Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

 

Picture of bracken fern

Source: Vancouver Island Grows

 

Common Names

bracken, brake, common bracken, eagle fern

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