Nature Manitoba is pleased to present a series of wild plant profiles to help educate and increase awareness of people about our botanical heritage and ecology.
Starting in 2010, a series of approximately twenty plant profiles were created and posted here. Please feel free to view them and print them. Phase Two of the project is now underway.
The profiles are the work of local artist and authority Tom Reaume, the author of 620 Wild Plants of North America.
Plant profiles are in .pdf format (~2mb):
- American Elm
- American Hazelnut
- Annual Sow-thistle
- Bur Oak
- Can Thistle
- Canada Goldenrod
- Chicory
- Common Mullein
- Common Plantain
- Common Reed Grass
- Common Water-Plantain
- Downy Yellow Violet
- Great Bulrush
- Great Ragweed
- Gumweed
- Lobed Prickly Lettuce
- Manitoba Maple
- Maximiliani's Sunflower
- Narrow-leaved Cattail
- Nodding Trillium
- Perennial Sow Thistle
- Prairie Cord Grass
- Red-Osier Dogwood
- Silky Milkweed
- Smooth Brome
- Smooth-fruited Sedge
- Stinging Nettle
- Western Canada Violet
- Western Snowberry
- Wild Cucumber
- Wild Licorice
- Wood Nettle
- Wood's Rose
- Woolly Sedge
- Yellow Evening-Primrose
The project is supported by grants from Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport, and the Winnipeg Foundation.