Plant Description:

• Open-forest shrub growing up to 3 m high
• Leaves broadly oval
• Small nuts enclosed by united bracts with beaks
• Shelled nuts are edible
• Branches make good arrows
• Rroots and inner bark can be used for making a blue dye
• Found at Stop 1 - on the Intrepretive Nature Trail

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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