Springbank Clover
Common Name: Springbank Clover
Other names.
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
St'uselóye (Halq'emeylem)
Identification.
Common Name(s): Kinnikinnick, Common Bearberry, Crowberry, Mountain Cranberry, Foxberry, Mealberry
Scientific Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
First Nations Name: Kinnikinnik (Alqonquian)
Family: Ericaceae
Bull Kelp
Nereocystis luetkeana
Common Names:
Coastal Red Elder, Red Elderberry
First Nations Names:
Upriver Halkomelem: sth’iwuq’ (fruit), sth’iwuq’ulhp (shrub)
Downriver Halkomelem: th’iwuq’ (fruit), th’iwuq’ulhp (shrub)
Island Halkomelem: th’iwuq’ (fruit)
Family: Sambucus
Common name
Grand Fir
Latin name
Abies grandis
Hulkemel’em name
T’a'xwulhp
Identification
Red Huckleberry – Vaccinium parvifolium
– S a l a l –
Common Name(s):
Salal
Scientific Name(s):
Sword Fern
(Polystichum munitum)
Figure 1. Fully mature sword fern in the forest (Hansen, 2012)
Common Names
Sword Fern, Shield Fern, Christmas Fern, Sword Holly Fern
(Garden Works, n.d.; Hansen, 2012)
Bracken Fern
Pteridium aquilinum
Source: Vancouver Island Grows
Common Names
bracken, brake, common bracken, eagle fern
