ENPS Plant Database

The common name of pussy-toes comes from the tiny, soft, fuzzy flower clusters, which resemble a kitten's paw. An alternative name, everlasting, refers to the papery fruiting heads which persist for much of the summer.

Low Goldenrod is rare within Edmonton, but it can readily be seen in natural areas outside the city limits.

All Arnicas are poisonous.

A late bloomer, the brilliant flowerstalks bloom from the top down and are a favorite with insects and birds.

Related to wild chives, Nodding Onion is edible with a strong flavour.

An aster-like flower that produces a profuse and showy mid-spring to early summer bloom of daisy-like blooms.

Only female plants of rosy pussytoes exist in Alberta and these form seed by self-fertilization.

Also known as Cut-leaved Anemone

One of the first flowers to bloom in April, they are often in flower at the same time as the Prairie Crocus. Look for tiny shining buttercups peeking out from under the dead grass.

The blooms close in the cold and the entire plant is protected by a fine 'fur'. Plants elongate as they mature? As flower petals drop, the maturing seed head becomes a mass of silvery fluff.

Tiny rose-purple flowers in cylindrical, head-like masses at ends of upright wiry stems.

The unique reddish-purple stems provide interesting contrast for this aster.