Links

• Hansen’s Northwest Native Plant Database
• E-Flora: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia
• Fraser Valley Conservancy Gardening with Native Plants in the lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
• Grow Green: A Guide To Eco-Friendly Lawns And Gardens In Metro Vancouver
• Grow Me Instead – profiles BC’s most unwanted horticultural plants, along with their recommended alternatives
• Be Plantwise
• Native Plant Society of BC
• Gardening with Native Plants – Habitat Acquisition Trust
• Invasive Species Council of BC
• Invasive Species Action Month (May)
• Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver
• Invasive Plants in Your Garden – Habitat Acquisition Trust
• Birds Canada Gardening for Birds
• How to Create a Pollinator Friendly Garden – David Suzuki Foundation

Native Species

These are some of the native plant species that you will find in Burnaby Lake Regional Park. The ones in bold are the species that the BLPA have planted in their work parties.

Big-Leaf Maple, Bleeding Heart, Bunchberry, Cascade Mountain Ash, Cascade Oregon Grape, Cascara, Coast Douglas Fir, Common Lady-Fern, Devil’s Club, Douglas Fir, Douglas Spirea, Dull Oregon-Grape, Dwarf Mountain Ash, Dwarf Oregon-Grape, False Lily-Of-The-Valley, Fireweed, Fringecup, Hardhack, Hooker’s Fairybells, Horse Chestnut, Indian Plum, Lady Fern, Large-Leaf Avens, Licorice Fern, Mock Orange, Nootka Rose, Oceanspray, Orange (or Western) Honeysuckle, Pacific Trillium, Red Alder, Red Elderberry, Red-Flowering Currant, Red Huckleberry, Red-Osier Dogwood, Salal, Salmonberry, Skunk Cabbage, Snowberry, Sword Fern, Tall Oregon Grape, Thimbleberry, Twinberry, Vine Maple, Western (or Beaked) Hazelnut, Western Crabapple, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, White Poplar

Invasive Species

These are some of the invasive plant species that you will find in Burnaby Lake Regional Park. The ones in bold are the species that the BLPA Weedbusters have removed in their work parties.

English Ivy, English Holly, Eurasian Watermilfoil, Himalayan Balsam (Purple Policemen’s Helmet), Himalayan Blackberry, Japanese Knotweed, Orange Hawkweed, Oxeye Daisy, Periwinkle, Purple Loosestrife, Reed Canary Grass, Scotch Broom, Yellow Flag Iris, Yellow Loosestrife

• Help Stop the Spread of Invasive Plants – Brochure
• Help Stop the Spread of Invasive Plants – City of Burnaby Brochure

*Information from Hansen’s Northwest Native Plant Database and Invasive Species Council of BC.