ENPS Plant Database

The characteristics of this species can vary quite widely between populations.

A cheerful yellow early-bloomer for the spring garden

Showy Aster adds dramatic height and late-season blooms to the garden, offering crucial support to pollinators as they prepare for winter.

Now rare in the natural areas of Edmonton.

Smooth Fleabane is a resilient plant that attracts essential pollinators and enhances biodiversity!

Stiff goldenrod features tiny, bright yellow, daisy-like flowers borne in dense, erect, flat-topped terminal clusters atop stiff, broad-leaved, hairy stems.

Leaflets are dark green on the upper surface, and pale green underneath. Stems are purplish green.

In June and July, the massed seed-heads give the effect of a pinkish, smoky haze over the prairies where these plants grow, giving rise to their other common name, Prairie Smoke.

Later blooming flowers provide pollinators with a food source, after many spring and summer flowers have finished flowering.

Aromatic leaves have a fragrance similar to bergamot, which is used in flavouring Earl Grey tea.

If a plant could be shy and elusive, it might be this one.

The single, ephemeral flower on a stalk opens in the morning and closes by end of day; new flowers open the next day.