All flowers illustrated were photographed in their wild setting in, or close to, the city of Sudbury. My goal is to increase the awareness of the types and habitats of wildflowers and some associated plants that grow in this part of northern Ontario. The content of the pages are designed for both adults and children. Some pages, such as the Burwash Area Wildlife page is aimed primarily at children to help kids better appreciate the different types of wildlife, where they live, and what their droppings look like. The English name is the one more commonly known in Ontario.
Some plants have several common names.
The Latin name is generally made of two words. The first is the genus . The second word is the specific epithetis. Both names together make up the species name. Often there are several species in a genus .