Plant Description:

• Short bush found in woodlands, in ditches and in ravines
• Stems growing over 1 m tall with weak spines
• Leaves consist of about 7 hairy, rounded leaflets
• Individual pink flowers
• The Provincial flower of Alberta
• Rose hips (the fruit) have a high concentration of vitamins A, B, C, E, & K.
• Petals can be consumed
• Found at Stop 1 - on the Interpretive Nature Trail, and Stops 6, 8, and 11

 

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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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