#Snowberries & #Bearberry #Cotoneaster #plants. Food for wildlife, in Winter.

#nature #berries #biodiversity #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Kinnickinnick flowers (don't you just love the name?) at Beaver Creek, SK. Also known as bear berries (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi). The fruit are edible but unappealing.

#kinnickinnick #bearberry #yxe #nativeflowers #wildfoods

Bearberry manzanita (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) at Point Reyes National Seashore!

This low-growing species is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but is rare in California. In Eastern Canada and USA it's known as kinnikinnick, and is a part of some traditional smoking mixtures.

In California it tends to inhabit coastal bluffs at a few locations from Monterey County North. There is also a small population on San Bruno Mountain. I have only seen it a handful of times, it seems not to be able to handle much grazing by cattle. At this location it only survived at very edge of the bluff!

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#Arctostaphylos
#manzanitas #bearberry #kinnikinnick #FireEcology