1. Riparian Habitat 5. Ponderosa Pine 9. Wax or Squaw Current () ( cereum) A riparian habitat is the region between the surface of a creek, stream or river This is the most common tree in Glacier This deciduous grows on dry and the highest point of the bank. View. It is named for its large size. The slopes. The pink tubular flowers are The Glacier View Meadows Because of the rich source of water, this needles are long, usually in bundles of important sources of nectar for Homeowners Association habitat supports extensive vegetation and three and the 3-6" cones grow in groups hummingbirds. Named for the waxy Ecology and Trails a large number of animal species. of three. The bark smells like vanilla or appearance of the leaves, this shrub butterscotch. Susceptible to Mountain produces red berries in the fall. Committee present Pine Beetle attack, this tree died in 2011 2. Alder along with many more down the trail. (Alnus incana subsp. tenuifolia) 10. Quaking or Trembling The Crellin Canyon Nature Trail Very common shrub or small tree, Aspen 6. Common Juniper (Populus tremuloides) Created 2002, forming thickets along riverbanks. It is (Juniperus communis) brochure revised in 2012 an important species for enriching the A sun loving tree with smooth soil with nitrogen. It has tiny 1/2" egg- This is a spreading evergreen shrub greenish-white bark. The leaf stalks shaped cones that grow in clusters of 3- with separate male and female varieties. are long and flattened, allowing the 6 on new twigs. This shrub is very common, being the leaves to tremble in light breezes. It only conifer to be found throughout the usually reproduces by sending up 3. Narrowleaf Cottonwood Northern Hemisphere. suckers which produce stands of (Populus augustifolia) genetically identical trees [clones]. 7. Kinnickinnick This is the common cottonwood of the (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) Northern Rockies, identifiable by its 11. Common Snowberry narrow, willow-like leaves. It grows Also known as the common bearberry as Symphoricarpus albus

along streams and produces millions of bears are very fond of the bright red This is a deciduous shrub of the seeds with fluffy hairs that are dispersed berries. This is a trailing mat-forming honey-suckle family. The pink by wind. This tree was discovered by evergreen shrub with pink urnshaped flowers bloom July to August. The Lewis and Clark in 1805. flowers that bloom in May and June. white waxy berries stay on the

through winter but are poisonous 4. Sandbar Willow 8. River Birch for humans if eaten in quantity. The Crellin Trail was initially (Betula fontinalis) created by Howard Ensign and (Salix exigua) They are a valuable food source for

Mary Alice Evans in the early several species of birds. An erect deciduous shrub with long Also known as mountain birch, red 1980s. This trail is described in his narrow leaves, producing large birch and black birch, this is the only 12. Lichen book, A Naturalist's Years in the amounts of forage for many animals. native birch in the Southern Rockies. Rocky Mountains. The bark contains salicin, a compound Its bark is dark reddish brown with Lichen is actually two species closely related to the active ingredient horizontal lines but does not peel like living together where the species Warning! Parts of the trail are in aspirin which was originally derived the white paper birch. It grows in the benefit each other. The algae steep and can be slippery, especially from willow . moist soils of mountain canyons. provide food and the fungi provide minerals and anchors on which to in winter. Please use extreme care while hiking the trail. Follow the grow. This living together is called "symbiosis". These symbionts are markers and stay on the trail. the first to grow on rocks and their

secretions start the decomposition of rocks. 13. Decomposition. 17. Ninebark 21. Red Osier (Dogwood) 25. Prickly-Pear Cactus ( monogynus) (Swida sericea) (Opuntia polyacantha) The dead log is undergoing decomposition, the breakdown of This deciduous shrub has continually This deciduous shrub forms thickets in This cactus grows in dry open sites complex organic compounds to form shredding bark and is so named the moist areas in which it grows and is from the plains into the foothills. the basic inorganic molecules from because it was believed to have 9 typically found in riparian habitats. The 2 - 3" wide yellow flowers which all life is formed. This event layers of bark. The white clusters of The red bark and white winter-time bloom in May and June and have is mandatory in order to sustain life flowers that bloom in June and July are berries make this an attractive shrub many thin overlapping petals. Also for earth only has a finite amount of sweet smelling, attracting bees and that is planted as an ornamental. called "Hunger" or "Starvation" these chemical building blocks. butterflies. Cactus because its dry fruits were a last-chance food choice for early 14. Granitic Rock 22. Shrubby Cinquefoil settlers. 18. Rocky Mountain Juniper (Pentaphylloides floribunda) The 70' cliff across the canyon is (Juniperus scopulorum) 26. Rocky Mountain Maple grey and pink feldspar covered with The male and female cones are found This is a common shrub of the west. It (Acer glabrum) dark greenish lichens. There is an adapts well to cultivation and many abundance of ledges and crevices on separate plants. The female plants This shrub or small tree grows in have bluish berries (cones). They variations have been developed. This where birds, (several species of owls variety has yellow saucer shaped moist sheltered areas. The fruits are and true hawks, common nighthawk, germinate after passing through the V shaped pairs of winged seeds that digestive tract of birds or mammals, flowers with five heart shaped petals. band-tailed pigeon), and many sail with the wind. The leaves turn species of rodents live. Weathering having lost their outer covering which crimson in the autumn. and biological decomposition helps exposes the seed. The cedar-like 23. Mountain Mahogany to enrich the riparian habitat. aromatic wood is suitable for cedar (Cercocarpus montanus) 27. Antelope Bitterbrush chests. (Purshia tridentata) 15. Boulder Raspberry (Follow the loop counterclockwise) This deciduous shrub grows in (Oreobatus deliciosus) 19. Douglas-Fir dry, open areas. Its fruit has a This silvery shrub blooms with (Pseudotsuga menziesii) feathery tail. The hard and heavy many fragrant yellow flowers from This woody shrub produces showy 1- wood was used by Native May to July. The leaves are and 3" white flowers that look similar to Not a true fir, this evergreen has flat Americans for tools and war three toothed. This is one of the the wild rose. It grows on dry needles that are aromatic when crushed. clubs. It is browsed by deer. West's most important forage plants hillsides and rocky areas. The pinkish The brown cones have many thin three- for deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, berry looks like a raspberry but is dry, toothed bracts, sometimes likened to the 24. Narrow-leaved Yucca and pronghorns, the mistaken seedy and tasteless, not "delicious" as tail and hind legs of a mouse. This tree "antelope" for which the bush is (Yucca glauca) the Latin name implies. typically grows in the shade of other named.

trees such as the Ponderosa Pine. It 16. Common Chokecherry This yucca and the yucca moth depend Wildflowers makes excellent lumber (first in the on one another for survival. The (Padus virginiana) U.S. in total volume of timber) and is a flowers open fully only at night which At different times of the year, the A shrub or small tree that forms popular Christmas tree. is when these night-flying moths trail is lined with many species of dense thickets in moist soils. The fertilize the flowers by laying eggs in wildflowers. Early in the year you flowers are in 4" long clusters that 20. Prickly Rose them. This assures the development of may see Pasque flowers, Spring bloom late in the spring. The fruit (Rosa sayi) seeds that, in turn, provide food for the Beauties and Larkspur. Later, are shiny red or black berries with young moths when they hatch. Shooting Stars, yellow and blue large seeds. They are a prime A deciduous shrub with prickly stems and violets, and Pink Bergamot may be sweet smelling pink flowers. When the autumn food for black bears. seen. Keep a careful careful watch flowers fade, "rose hips" remain through for these small but beautiful plants. the winter providing a food source when other fruits are gone.