nabatat's Identifications

Located at the Northeast Swale, Saskatoon. On a flat section of the swale.

Not as aromatic as the Fringed Sage and blades are wider and less feathery. Not noticeably hairy. Lower leaves starting to die off.

Common Plants of the Western Rangelands. Forbs
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Western Snowberry/ Buckbrush/ Wolfberry.
Symphoricarpos occidentalis.
Located in the Northeast Swale on top of a small knoll. Found with many other Western Snowberries near by. Near the bottom of a slope. 


I tried to capture the young red new growth of the stems in comparison to the darker woody old growth. Opposite leaf arrangement was observed. Underside of the leaves are hairy and pale whereas the tops of the leaves are bright green and smooth (photo 3).

Berries are a pale green colour.

About 2 feet tall.

Common Plants of the Western Rangelands. Trees and Shrubs
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Tufted White Prairie Aster. Located in the Northeast Swale at the bottom of a knoll. It was among many different grass species and Western Snowberries.

The plant was hairy and more branched on one side than the other. Rays were about 5mm. Overlapping bracts.

Common Plants of the Western Rangelands. Volume 2- Forbs
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Culms tufted. Large open leaf sheaths. Blades pubescent; mostly <5 mm and flat. No auricles. Ligules membranous <0.8 mm. Terminal spikes nodding and most have a light purple tinge with long dense awns. 3 spikelets per node. Located near saline slough.

Leighton, A. L., & Harms, V. L. (2014). Grasses of Saskatchewan (Flora of Saskatchewan; fascicle 4). Regina, SK: Nature Saskatchewan & Flora of Saskatchewan Association.

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Common cattail

Growing in wet ground next to a lake but base of plant not submerged in water. Water levels of the lake were high this year, earlier in the summer the base of the plant would have been likely under water. Flat and smooth blades. Blades growing in an alternating pattern up the stem.

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Reference: Common Plants of the Western Rangelands - Forbs

Found in a group with 7 other Bunchberries. In the boreal forest just off a walking trail.

Leaves are organized in a whorl arrangement. Leaves are hairy, the underside of the leaves are a paler green in comparison to the uppers.

Stems of the plant too are hairy.

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Reference: Common Plants of the Western Rangelands

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Found in wooded area. Non glandular Involucres is the first observation. Whole plant is glabrous. Sessile linear- oblanceolate lower leaves also is a key feature. Clasping upper leaves with auricles
Reference: Common Plants of the Western Rangelands volume 3

Growing in a group with many other Canada Goldenrods as well as Stiff Goldenrods.

Fine hairs covered the leaves and the upper half of the stem. Felt rough to the touch like fine grain sandpaper.

Leaves were jagged or toothed. The lower leaves on the plant were dried up (photo 4).

Common Plants of the Western Rangelands- Forbs

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Found among other Goldenrods in a flat field.

Leaves were green and covered in hairs that are soft like velvet. The stems were also soft. At the base of the plant there are larger basal leaves (photo 4 and 5).

Flat topped inflorescence corymbs.

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Located in an old pasture among mixed dry grasses. Landscape is flat with lacustrine parent material.

The plant was hairless. Auricles present. Pale purple flowers.
Flowers in clusters at the top, resembling corymbs.

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Bunch grass that has columnar growth patterns. Tufted.

Feels like a round blade of grass. When running fingers from root to tip of the blade the grass feels smooth and when running fingers from tip to root feels rough.
Small ciliate ligule.

Grasses of Saskatchewan. P. 256
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Located in the Northeast Swale. This particular plant was surrounded with many other of the same species which can be attributed to the Wild Licorices rhizomes. The leaves of this plant are pinnate. Many of the leaves I counted had between 13-17 leaflets fitting into the keys description of the species having between 7-19 leaflets.
The pods on the plant were red-brown and covered with bristles that stuck to my pant leg while taking photos.

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Reference: Reference: Common Plants of the Western Rangelands. P.226

This shrub was found in a naturalized park among grasses, native flowers and aspen trees.

Keying out this Ribes was tricky because the identification of it relied heavily on flowers that were no longer present on the plant.

The key led me to Ribes Oxyacanthoides though there were a few things that the shrub I was attempting to ID did not have.

In the third photo is the large nodal spines but missing from the plant was the internodal spines mentioned.

The leaves of the plant matched the description in the key as the leaves were palmate, had between 3-5 lobes, hairy, and were green above and lighter below.

The berries present also matched the description for Canadian Gooseberry, they were dark purple and hairless.

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