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Type
Birds
Flowering plants
Gymnosperms
Insects
Mammals
Trees
Color
Black
Blue
Brown
Green
Grey
Orange
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Kingdom
Animalia
Plantae
Phylum
Arthopoda
Chordata
Class
Aves
Insecta
Pinopsida
Order
Apiales
Asparagales
Asterales
Boraginales
Coleoptera
Cornales
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Family
Geraniaceae
Geraniaceae
Amaryllidaceae
Apiaceae
Apocynaceae
Asteraceae
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Genus
Scaevola
Agastache
Ageratum
Allium
Anaphalis
Andropogon
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Size
Around 100cm
Around 10cm
Around 150cm
Around 15cm
Around 15m
Around 1m
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Distribution
Africa
Australia
Central America
Central and Eastern Europe
Central Asia
East Asia
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Location
Canada
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Zoo
Leaves
Acicular
alternate
Ciliate
coarse
Cordate
Crenate
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Flowers
bell-shaped
black
blue
Brown
capitulum
Catkin
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Fruit
Achene
berry
black
brown
capsule
drupe
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Trivia
Able to self-pollinate
Attractive to butterflies
Ballistic seed dispersal
Colorful bracts often mistaken as petals
drought tolerance
Edible fruit
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Seeds
achene
black
Blue
brown
capsule
cone
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Life Cycle
Annual
Biennial
Perennial

Location Canada

  • Pacific madrone
    Photo of a Pacific madrone
  • Painted lady
    Photo of a Painted lady
  • Panicled hydrangea
    Photo of a Panicled hydrangea
  • Pasture sage
    Photo of a Pasture sage
  • Pearly everlasting
    Photo of a Pearly everlasting
  • Pink-spotted cattleheart
    Photo of a Pink-spotted cattleheart
  • Postman butterfly
    Photo of a Postman butterfly
  • Prairie dropseed
    Photo of a Prairie dropseed
  • Prairie onion
    Photo of a Prairie onion
  • Prairie sage
    Photo of a Prairie sage
  • Purple giant hyssop
    Photo of a Purple giant hyssop
  • Purple prairie clover
    Photo of a Purple prairie clover
  • Queen Anne's lace
    Photo of a Queen Anne's lace
  • Red rim
    Photo of a Red rim
  • Rose of Sharon
    Photo of a Rose of Sharon
  • Rough oxeye
    Photo of a Rough oxeye
  • Russian sage
    Photo of a Russian sage
  • Rusty-tipped page
    Photo of a Rusty-tipped page
  • Shrubby cinquefoil
    Photo of a Shrubby cinquefoil
  • Sideoats grama
    Photo of a Sideoats grama
  • Slender vervain
    Photo of a Slender vervain
  • Snapdragon
    Photo of a Snapdragon
  • Spotted dead-nettle
    Photo of a Spotted dead-nettle
  • Stiff goldenrod
    Photo of a Stiff goldenrod
  • Swamp milkweed
    Photo of a Swamp milkweed
  • Thimbleberry
    Photo of a Thimbleberry
  • Thistle
    Photo of a Thistle
  • Variable swallowtail
    Photo of a Variable swallowtail
  • Virginia creeper
    Photo of a Virginia creeper
  • Western Snowberry
    Photo of a Western Snowberry
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