Indigenous Plants
This plant produces a white poisonous sap, a favourite meal for monarch caterpillars.
What is Milkweed?
This busy insect is a popular pollinator for many flowers, and usually helps farmers along the way.
What is a Honeybee?
Watersheds usually are bordered by these large landmasses.
What is a mountain?
Seeds usually sprout during this season.
What is springtime?
This plant was used by indigenous people to give ear piercings.
What is Prickly Pear Cactus?
This sweet syrup is used by bees to make their honey.
What is flower nectar?
This lake is the source for all the drinking water in Vernon.
What is Kalamalka lake?
This type of plant produces large cones filled with seeds.
What is a Conifer?
This tree was used to make all sorts of wooden tools, including bows, clubs, and spoons.
What is Rocky Mountain Juniper?
These bees are royalty, and help lay the eggs of all the workers of the hive.
This material is used to help your car grip icy roads in the winter time, but also hurts local plants when it enters the water supply.
What is road salt?
This springtime weather might make a seed wake up and grow into a new plant.
What is rain?
This tree was used to make canoes, and is prized for it's water-resistant oils that are in the wood.
What is Western Red Cedar?
This special food is reserved for the larva of future queen bees.
This problem is caused by the removal of trees and grasses, and leads to soil being washed away.
This tasty covering is used by plants to encourage herbivores to take their seeds with them to new areas.
What is a fruit?
This plant was used to stock the fires used to smoke salmon.
What is Sagebrush?
This special type of bee are missing their stingers, and are the only males in the hive.
What are drone bees?
This pollutant can cause major algae growth in lakes and ponds, turning the water green.
What is fertilizer?
This plant uses the power of wind to propel its helicopter shaped seeds to distant lands.
What is a Maple Tree?