Posts Categorized: Esquimalt High School

Snowberry – pəpq̓i’yas

Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, S. sinensis, which is indigenous to western China, all species... Read more

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Miner’s Lettuce

Claytonia perfoliata is a tender rosette-forming plant that grows to a maximum of 40 centimetres (16 in) in height, but mature plants can be as short as 1 centimetre (0.39 in). The cotyledons are usually bright... Read more

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Crab Apple – qé’əxʷ

qé’əxʷ Malus (/ˈmeɪləs/[2] or /ˈmæləs/) is a genus of about 30–55 species[3] of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple (M. pumila syn. M. domestica ) – also known as the eating apple, cooking apple, or culinary apple. The other species are... Read more

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Camas – qʷɫəɫ

qʷɫəɫ Amassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to Canada and the United States. Common names include camas, quamash, camash, and wild hyacinth.[citation needed] It grows in the wild in great numbers in moist meadows. They are perennial plants with basal linear... Read more

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