Prickly Rose Yarrow Rosa Acicularis Achillea Millefolium

This wild shrub grows up to 1.5m An aromatic perennial, it’s most tall. The rose hips, or berry like notable for its healing and multiple fruit, are extremely high in vitamin medical uses. First Nations people C. In fact the amount in one rose used the roots for toothaches, the hip is the equivalent of 15 oranges. leaves for rheumatism, and Flora Guide The hips, used by humans to make concoctions of the roots were tea, jam, and jelly, are also eaten gargled to stop sore throats. Yarrow by bears and coyotes. leaves can also be placed in a fire to repel mosquitoes.

Red Columbine Alpine Tiger Lily Aquilegia Canadensis Lilium Parvum

Among the most familiar of BC’s The tiger lily has large, bright native plants, the columbine’s red orange flowers that dangle like and yellow flowers have sweet bells from the central stem. The nectar at their base, an attraction petals, which curl back, are for humming birds and butterflies. delicately sprinkled with dark The Interior First Nations people coloured spots, like the fur of a used this unique plant as a good tiger. The spots also gave rise to luck charm for love. the superstition that smelling the tiger lily will give you freckles.

Stinging Nettle Alpine Pussytoes Urtica Dioica Antennaria Alpina

Don’t get too close; it was named after A perennial growing up to 15cm tall its ability to cause an irritating skin and a species in the sunflower rash! This 3m perennial, identifiable by family. Often confused with the its inconspicuous green flowers and umber and rosy pussytoes, the jagged leaves, secretes formic acid through its hollow hairs. Although it’s flower. The alpine variety is whitish untouchable, its leaves can be cooked with several overlapping, pointed and eaten. The plant can even be used bracts, is woolly underneath and for medical purposes, including dark brown to black above. treatment for diabetes.

False Solomon’s Seal Please, be respectful of the natural environment. Leave only Sub-Alpine Daisy Maianthemum Racemosum footprints behind and take only pictures. Garbage and recycling Erigeron Peregrinus receptacles are conveniently located. Kindly leave the flora intact Often found in bunches, it is the Growing between 10cm and only lily to have distinctive large 60cm tall, it is more like an aster clusters of tiny star-like flowers, than a daisy. The flowers are strongly perfumed. It is thought to SunPeaksResort.com solitary composite heads with have been named in reference to pink, lavender, or reddish-purple its seeds which, when cut, bare ray flowers. The First Nations markings resembling the seal of We are committed to our environment. people called it the star flower Solomon, a six pointed star. The As a leader in protecting the environment, red berries are edible. and was used as a decorative Sun Peaks Resort LLP has been certified to ISO 14001. pattern in their basketry. Arctic Lupine Dwarf Dogwood Fireweed Lupinus Arcticus Cornus Canadensis Chamaenerion Angustifolium

One of BC’s most common This plant resembles the dogwood It’s the first plant to grow after wildflowers, it has the ability to form tree except for size. Introduced from a forest fire and is often found huge colonies. These blue to pinkish Europe, it is a low, trailing perennial thriving in areas that are burned flowers can provide a breathtaking found in Canadian forests. The or have a high vulnerability to display in mid-summer. A member bracts are often mistaken for fires. Growing up to 3m high with of the pea family, it grows more than flowers, but these white leaves large clusters of rose, mauve, 70cm and sprouts in clusters. This surround the actual blossoms, which or purple flowers, bees use the pretty plant is the marmot’s are a cluster of tiny white or flowers to produce an especially favourite food! purplish flowers. delicious honey!

Balsamroot Larkspur Balsamorhiza Sagittata Delphinium Discover the Beauty This perennial traditionally BC Hiking Trails Containing delphinine, it is provided an important addition highly toxic and its seeds highly to the diets of the Interior First Experience British Columbia’s hiking at its best. Start your poisonous. Oddly, sheep are Nations people, while the sap was adventures right from the village, or better yet, enjoy a unaected by the poison and used as a topical antiseptic. The relaxing and picturesque ride up the Sunburst chairlift have been used to eradicate the taproots and seeds were dried from a 6,000’ elevation in the Shuswap highlands. plant from infected areas of the and pounded into a starchy flour. range. It is easily identified by its Grows 1 to 2 feet tall, with roots Proper planning is important before you set out on any irregular blue and violet flowers. up to 8 feet deep. type of adventure.

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Check the weather so that you have an idea about Mountain Aster Canada Goldenrod Eurybia Chlorolepis Solidago Canadensis clothing needs, and gear. Proper footwear is always

recommended for safety. The temperature is always a bit cooler in the mountains, so bring layers. The aster, which is the Greek word A member of the sunflower family, it for “star”, strongly resembles a can grow from 30cm to 175cm and daisy. It can be dierentiated by is well known for its medical uses. In Questions? For more information and maps contact Guest Services its multiple composite heads and fact, its scientific name means to at , visit the Activities Desk in the Village Day Lodge, purple colour ranging from pale restore or cure. The most popular 250.578.5474 or the Tourism Sun Peaks o ce in the upper village. shades to vibrant hues. Traditionally medicinal use was to sooth colicky used by First Nations as a stomach babies by externally using a tea remedy, it’s common in moist made from the stems and flowers. alpine meadows.

Indian Paintbrush Canadian Thistle Castilleja Orange Hawkweed Cirsium Arvense Pilosella Aurantiaca A member of the figwort family that grows up to 60cm tall, it’s Native to Europe and Northern Growing 20cm to 60cm tall, the found in mid to high elevations Asia with pink-purple disk flowers solitary stems are bristly and across BC and thrives in moist that grow in small groups, it grows exude a milky juice when broken. areas like forests and mountain 30cm to 120cm tall. Unlike other The stems boast bright, vivid slopes. The flowers are set in thistles, it lacks prickles on the red-orange flowers and the plant clusters and the red leafy bracts stem and has only weak prickles grows in clusters, thriving in open resemble a brush dipped in red on the bracts. It is the only thistle meadows and pastures. It is now paint, giving the plant its name. with male and female flowers regionally invasive in areas of BC. on separate plants.