Nursery Flowers (Medium to Moist Soil) – Prairie Shore Botanicals

Fireweed

Caterpillars of the white-lined and galium sphinx moths feed on the leaves.

If 2-flowered cynthia and sow thistle had a baby…

Short, spiky-looking seed heads are very distinctive.

This soft fuzzy plant is ranked S3 (vulnerable) in Manitoba.

The life-line of the dark-legged loosestrife oil bee.

Ranked S1, critically imperiled, in Manitoba.

The flowers aren’t especially attractive, but the seed heads sure are!

Small, bean-shaped seeds are an important food source for the larvae of a tiny weevil.

A larval food host for the black swallowtail butterfly.