Plant Description:

• Upright plant, growing up to 30 cm tall; usually found in large groups
• Leaves sword-shaped without stalks
• Flowers greenish-white to pinkish and small
• Susceptible to attacks by an insect that causes galls
• A semi-parasite: it can provide its own food but will also join to the roots of other plants, robbing them of water and nutrients
• Found at Stops 1 and 2

 

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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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