jpwasan's Identifications

Found at the walking trails of Outlook and District Regional Park. Area is highly disturbed native prairie, with patches of smooth brome and crested wheat grass invading . As well as weedy areas with thistles and babies breath.

Site is the East bank of the South Saskatchewan River. Soil is a sandy loam. Vegetation is a mix of tree and shrub in coulees (lower slope), followed by short shrub and grass mid slope and shortgrass prairie top slope. (Green ash, chokecherry, Saskatoon, Manchurian elms, Manitoba maple - to - snowberry, smooth brome, crested wheat grass, wheat grass, sand reed grass - to - blue grama, June grass, carex sp.)