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  2. Wild edible and medicinal plants of British Columbia

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    Almost all major groups of wild plants in British Columbia have edible members that are reported to have been used by the First Nations peoples. [1] Many are still used today. Native plants of B.C. largely contributed to the diets of First Nations peoples of this area before these people and their land were colonized.

  3. Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site

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    Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area, and Haida Heritage Site, usually referred to simply as Gwaii Haanas (/ ˌ ɡ w aɪ ˈ h ɑː n ə s /), is located in southernmost Haida Gwaii (formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands), 130 kilometres (81 miles) off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

  4. Vaccinium myrtilloides - Wikipedia

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    Vaccinium myrtilloides is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, often spreading to form small thickets. The leaves are bright green, paler underneath with velvety hairs.

  5. Maianthemum canadense - Wikipedia

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    Maianthemum canadense (Canadian may-lily, Canada mayflower, false lily-of-the-valley, Canadian lily-of-the-valley, wild lily-of-the-valley, [3] two-leaved Solomon's seal) [4] is an understory perennial flowering plant, native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland, into St. Pierre and Miquelon. [4]

  6. Hierochloe odorata - Wikipedia

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    Sweet grass photographed in British Columbia, Canada 2007. Hierochloe odorata or Anthoxanthum nitens [1] (commonly known as sweet grass, manna grass, Mary's grass or vanilla grass, and as holy grass in the UK, [3] bison grass e.g. by Polish vodka producers [4]) is an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America.

  7. Okanagan Desert - Wikipedia

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    The South Okanagan shrub-steppe ecosystem is a habitat for 30% of the Red-listed and 46% of the Blue-listed vertebrates in British Columbia, with several listed as threatened or endangered. More than 24 invertebrates exist only in the Okanagan Desert, with an additional 80 species occurring nowhere else in Canada. [2] [3] [4]

  8. British Columbia mainland coastal forests - Wikipedia

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    There are three distinct types of vegetation on this coast: the forests of the coastal plain dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), western red cedar (Thuja plicata) and amabilis fir (Abies amabilis); mountain forest of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), amabilis fir and yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis); and alpine tundra with sedge meadows and lichen-covered rocks.

  9. Shepherdia canadensis - Wikipedia

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    Shepherdia canadensis, commonly called Canada buffaloberry, russet buffaloberry, [3] soopolallie, soapberry, or foamberry (Ktunaxa: kupaʔtiǂ, [4]) is one of a small number of shrubs of the genus Shepherdia that bears edible berries.

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