What You Can Do - Native Plant Crossroads

Find out what you can do to encourage and conserve native plants, from the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Text: Native Plant Crossroads. Photo: Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis.

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Activity Catalogue
Participation in native plant conservation can take many forms. In our Activity Catalogue you'll find a range of possibilities, from native plant gardening to shoreline rehabilitation, ecological monitoring to school-ground transformation.

People in Action
Looking for inspiration? Want to get involved? Meet some people who turned passion for native plants into action. Each of these real-life stories opens a door to native plant conservation.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

White trillium, Trillium grandiflorum S84-4772.

The spring-blooming flowers of white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) start out white and fade to pink as the flowers age. A plant can live for at least 26 years (the age can be measured by rings on the rhizome, but rings older than 26 years are typically lost or obscured by rot). Trilliums will not flower until they are 15 years old. Population survival can be jeopardized in areas where they are heavily browsed by deer because the plants will die out after about 12 years of repeated browsing.

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