{"id":47,"date":"2014-07-15T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2014-11-07T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:11:49","slug":"plant-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/how-to-guide\/plant-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"plant descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='container'>\n<div class='hero'>\n<h2>Plant Types and Habitats<\/h2>\n<p> <strong>Please select one of the following criteria: <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color:#EEE; padding:10px 15px; margin-bottom:10px; border-radius:10px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:20px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" style=\"display:block;\" class=\"toggle_links\">Choose by province or territory:<\/a><\/h4>\n<div style=\"display:none; margin-top:10px;\" class=\"hidebox\">\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/alberta\/\">Alberta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/british-columbia\/\">British Columbia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/manitoba\/\">Manitoba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/new-brunswick\/\">New Brunswick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/newfoundland-and-labrador\/\">Newfoundland &#038; Labrador<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/northwest-territories\/\">Northwest Territories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/nova-scotia\/\">Nova Scotia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/nunavut\/\">Nunavut<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/ontario\/\">Ontario<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/prince-edward-island\/\">Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/quebec\/\">Quebec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/saskatchewan\/\">Saskatchewan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/yukon\/\">Yukon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  style=\"background-color:#EEE; padding:10px 15px; margin-bottom:10px; border-radius:10px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:20px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" style=\"display:block;\" class=\"toggle_links\">Choose by common name:<\/a><\/h4>\n<div style=\"display:none; margin-top:10px;\" class=\"hidebox\">\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/arctic-lupine\/\">Arctic Lupine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/aspen-poplar\/\">Aspen poplar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bearberry\/\">Bearberry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/blue-bead-lily\/\">Blue-Bead Lily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bluets\/\">Bluets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bunchberry\/\">Bunchberry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/choke-cherry\/\">Choke cherry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/cloudberry\/\">Cloudberry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/coltsfoot\/\">Coltsfoot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/common-purple-lilac\/\">Common Purple Lilac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/cranberry-partridgeberry\/\">Cranberry\/Partridgeberry <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/dandelion\/\">Dandelion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/early-blue-violet\/\">Early blue violet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/golden-bean\/\">Golden bean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/labrador-tea\/\">Labrador tea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/larch\/\">Larch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/lodgepole-pine\/\">Lodgepole Pine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/mayflower\/\">Mayflower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/mountain-avens\/\">Mountain Avens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/northern-bedstraw\/\">Northern Bedstraw<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/paper-birch\/\">Paper birch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/prairie-crocus\/\">Prairie Crocus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/prickly-saxifrage\/\">Prickly Saxifrage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/purple-saxifrage\/\">Purple Saxifrage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/queens-cup\/\">Queen&#8217;s cup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/red-maple\/\">Red Maple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/rhodora\/\">Rhodora<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/sagebrush-buttercup\/\">Sagebrush Buttercup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/saskatoon\/\">Saskatoon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/star-flowered-solomons-seal\/\">Star-flowered Solomon&#8217;s Seal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/starflower\/\">Starflower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/sweetgale\/\">Sweetgale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/trillium\/\">Trillium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/twinflower\/\">Twinflower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/weeping-forsythia\/\">Weeping Forsythia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/white-water-lily\/\">White Water lily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/wild-strawberry\/\">Wild Strawberry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/wolf-willow\/\">Wolf Willow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/yarrow\/\">Yarrow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  style=\"background-color:#EEE; padding:10px 15px; margin-bottom:10px; border-radius:10px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:20px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" style=\"display:block;\" class=\"toggle_links\">Choose by scientific name:<\/a><\/h4>\n<div style=\"display:none; margin-top:10px;\" class=\"hidebox\">\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/red-maple\/\">Acer rubrum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/yarrow\/\">Achillea millefolium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/saskatoon\/\">Amelanchier spp.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/prairie-crocus\/\">Anemone patens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bearberry\/\">Arctostaphylos uva-ursi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/paper-birch\/\">Betula papyrifera and Betula neoalaskana<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/blue-bead-lily\/\">Clintonia borealis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/queens-cup\/\">Clintonia uniflora<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bunchberry\/\">Cornus canadensis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/mountain-avens\/\">Dryas octopetala \/ integrifolia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/wolf-willow\/\">Elaeagnus commutate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/mayflower\/\">Epigaea repens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/weeping-forsythia\/\">Forsythia suspensa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/wild-strawberry\/\">Fragaria virginiana \/ vesca<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/northern-bedstraw\/\">Gallum boreale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/bluets\/\">Houstonia caerulea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/larch\/\">Larix laricina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/twinflower\/\">Linnaea borealis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/arctic-lupine\/\">Lupinus arcticus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/star-flowered-solomons-seal\/\">Maianthemum stellatum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/sweetgale\/\">Myrica gale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/white-water-lily\/\">Nymphaea odorata<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/lodgepole-pine\/\">Pinus contorta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/aspen-poplar\/\">Populus tremuloides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/choke-cherry\/\">Prunus virginiana<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/sagebrush-buttercup\/\">Ranunculus glaberrimus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/rhodora\/\">Rhododendron canadense<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/labrador-tea\/\">Rhododendron groenlandicum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/cloudberry\/\">Rubus chamaemorus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/purple-saxifrage\/\">Saxifraga oppositifolia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/prickly-saxifrage\/\">Saxifraga tricuspidata<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/common-purple-lilac\/\">Syringa vulgaris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/dandelion\/\">Taraxacum officinale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/golden-bean\/\">Thermopsis rhombifolia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/starflower\/\">Trientalis borealis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/trillium\/\">Trillium grandiflorum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/coltsfoot\/\">Tussilago farfara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/cranberry\/\">Vaccinium vitis-idaea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/plantwatch\/early-blue-violet\/\">Viola adunca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant Types and Habitats Please select one of the following criteria: Choose by province or territory: Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland &#038; 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