Our Agricultural Ecology team enjoys taking plant photos in southern Manitoba, and is happy to present to you this collection of pictures and descriptions of flowering and grassy plants important for pollinator habitat.
We hope that you will be inspired like we were about the native and non-native plants that can be found in grassland, farms, field margins, roadsides, or disturbed sites in our province. It is a work in progress in which we hope to add bunches of new species as our photo database grows.
Click on the headings above, and you will find lists of species and thumbnail photos for each of the wildflowers, shrubs, trees, legumes, grasses, flowering cover crops, and families that we have presented. You can also use our search function (on the left sidebar). The species and families are listed by both scientific and accepted common name; if the name that you are searching for is not present, and you can’t find a matching photo, try using the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN) to find the accepted common or scientific name (many species have multiple common names).
The photographs for the site were taken in southern Manitoba by members of our team. Some members researched the descriptions that go with these images. Some designed, wrote, and edited the pages on this site. Some even grew plant material for photographic purposes! Click on the About Us link to learn about all of our contributors. A References page indicates the primary sources of our information. Some information comes also from our own observations.
We hope that this blog site will be useful to farmers, landowners, and amateur botanists and naturalists, so we try to use as much plain language as possible. We do provide a Glossary linked to some Botanical Diagrams to explain unavoidable botanical terms.