Cascara
Cascara is an erect, tall shrub or small tree that can grow up to 10 meters tall. It has thin, smooth, silver-grey bark that is extremely bitter. The flowers of the shrub are small and umbrella shaped. They are green or yellow and can be found in clusters of 8 to 50 flowers. The fruit is a black-purplish berry.
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Devil’s Club
Devil’s club is a tall deciduous shrub that can grow up to 3 meters tall. The stems of the shrub are thick and have yellow spines on them. The flowers are umbels of greenish-white flowers, and the fruits are bright red berries. It grows in the Pacific Coast of North America and in some areas in the Asian continent.
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Salal
Salal is a creepy to erect shrub native to North America. Salal grows from 0.2 to 3 meters tall. It is an evergreen plant with leathery leaves. The fruits are purple-black berries.
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Labrador Tea
A bush that starts out quite straggly and grows to be a dense 50-200cm tall plant. The flowers are white and in dense clusters with brown woody seed capsules.
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Oregon Grape
A low growing shrub with leathery holly-like leaves. Bright yellow flowers with round berries that are a dark blue.
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Sitka Valerian
This perennial herb grows stems from a stout rhizome with fibrous roots. Short hairy leaves grow in sets of pairs on opposite sides of the stem. Flowers are white or pink and grow in a flat-topped cluster. Height: 30-120 cm tall.
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Indian Hellebore
Indian Hellebore is a perennial herb, that grows to be 0.7-2.0m long, with numerous, broad, green leaves growing off it’s stem. It has numerous star-shaped flowers, yellow-green in colour, that are present on branched, drooping tassels.
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Trailing Blackberry
The trailing blackberry has prickly branches, characteristically narrow and white flower petals, and dark purple to black edible fruits that can be up to 2cm in size.
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Pearly Everlasting
Pearly Everlasting grows up to 2 feet high, and typically has unbranched, silvery green stems with lance-shaped leaves. It has dense white flowers petals surrounding a small yellow head in the center.
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Yarrow
A perennial herb that grows from a rhizome and produces several stems with evenly distributed leaves. The leaves are fern-like with varying degrees of hairiness, they taper from a rounded base to a point while also dividing into smaller leaflets. The flowers are whitish to cream coloured or light purple and grow in flattened clusters with numerous heads.
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