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When we think about wildlife, we tend to think about wild animals. However, most of Canada’s fauna couldn’t survive without the food and shelter provided by plants.
Canada has thousands of identified native plant species. But more than a quarter of them could be lost forever if we don’t do something to conserve them.
Learn more about our native flora and the fauna that enjoy them!
Get more info on native plants in this year’s National Wildlife Week program. Also, check out Canadian Wildlife Federation’s demonstration gardens full of native plants or plan for your own native plant garden.
Photographer: Sarah Coulber
Bright and cheery, Canada’s native sunflowers are sometimes called joy in a flower. Discover some species native to your area and where to get them.
Photographer: Sarah Coulber
Liatris, also known as blazing star or gayfeather, can grow in prairie meadows, formal beds and even containers. With its tall plumes of purply-pink flowers and feathery leaves, plants in the Liatris genus are a welcome addition by gardeners and pollinators to any garden. Learn more about this native species and how it can help create a pollinator’s paradise.
A bison grazes in the rolling Plains, stretching to the horizon. Grasslands span central Canada, but we are losing most of our native grasses, essential to several Prairie fauna. Learn how to include native grasses in your next planting project or learn more about bison.
Photographer: Sam Anderson
A cedar waxwing nibbles on the fruit of a service berry, demonstrating how this native plant is truly capable of meeting the needs of wildlife. Learn more about this native species.
Photographer: Theo Wouters and Roger Thibault
Also called 'Canadian holly,' winterberry is a splash of colour in your winter garden as well as a good source of food for wildlife. Learn more about the appearance, uses and care of this native plant.
Photographer: Chris Fragassi
A monarch butterfly rests on a white yarrow plant, one of many native species beneficial to pollinators in Canada. Learn more about gardening with yarrow or about the monarch butterfly.
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