Plant Description:

• Bush growing up to 1 m tall
• Widespread in the Prairies in ravines, moist and dry prairies, and open-forests
• Oval leaves
• Crowded pink and white flowers
• Snow-white, waxy berries
• Branches can be used to make arrow shafts
• Leaves can be boiled to make a wash for sore eyes
• Found at Stops 1 through 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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