What are the Plants of the Shuswap? - a list

Here is a list of local native plants of the Shuswwap that are suitable for gardening.  You are welcome to copy this list.

You can grow your own (see page titled Grow Your Own Native Plants) or buy from Violet Creek Nursery (see page titled Buy Native Plants)

	Common name (scientific name)
TREES
	Paper Birch (betula papyrifera)
	Trembling Aspen (populus tremuloides)
	Black Cottonwood (populus balsamifera, trichocarpa)
	Bitter cherry (prunus emarginata)
	Cascara (Rhamnus purshiana)
	Douglas maple ( acer glabrum)
	Mountain alder (alnus incana)
SHRUBS
	Saskatoon (amelanchier alnfolia)
	Redstem ceanothus (ceanothus sanguineus)
	Red-osier dogwood (cornus stolonifera)
	Hazelnut (corylus cornuta)
	Columbian (red) hawthorn (crataegus Columbiana)
	Black hawthorn (crataegus douglasii)
	Oceanspray (holodiscus discolor)
	Oregon grape (mahonia aquifolium)
	Mock-orange (philadelphus lewisii)
	Chokecherry (prunus virgiana)
	Baldhip rose (rosa gymnocarpa)
	Nootka rose (rosa nutkana)
	Wood rose (rosa woodsii)
	Prickly rose (rosa acicularis)
	Red raspberry (rubus idaeus)
	Black raspberry /blackcap (rubus leucodermis)
	Willow (salix)
	Thimbleberry (rubus parviflorus)
	Blue elderberry (sambucus caerulea)
	Red elderberry (sambucus racemosa)
	Black elderberry (sambucus Canadensis)
	Soapberry/soopolallie (shepherdia anadensis)
	Mountain ash (sorbus sitchensis)
	Snowberry (symphoricarpos albus)
	Highbush cranberry (viburnum opulus)
	Red twinberry (lonicera utahensis)
	False Box (pachistima/paxistima myrsinites)
	Black twinberry (lonicera involucrate)
FLOWERS
	Showy aster (aster conspicus)
	Columbine (aquilegia Formosa)
	Pearly everlasting (anaphalis margaritacea)
	Fireweed (epilobium angustifolium)
	Lupine (lupinus sericeus)
	False solomon’s seal (simlacina racemosa)
	Canada violet (viola canadensis)
	Yarrow (achillea millefolium)
	Heart leafed arnica (arnica cordifolia)
GROUNDCOVERS
	Kinnikinnick (arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
	umber pussytoes (antennaria umbrinella)
	Field pussytoes (antennaria neglecta)
	Wood strawberry (fragaria vessca)
	Blue leaf strawberry (fragaria virginiana)
VINES
	Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle (lonicera ciliosa)
	Blue clematis (clematis occindentalis)
	White clematis/virgin’s bower/traveller’s joy (clematis ligusticifolia)

list supplied by

VIOLET CREEK NURSERY, Barbara Westerman,

Box 35, Grindrod, V0E 1Y0

838-6101. Local native plants for the Shuswap grown from seed. Naturescape BC Ambassador, presentations and naturescape “kit” of three booklets for sale, $21.00, design your own natural landscape in your yard. Member of Native Plant Society of BC.