Vegetation
FONHS Guided Walk
Here is a list of the flowers that John McFaul helped us find on Nose Hill on Wednesday night, May 17, 2017. Many of these can be found pictured in May Count of Flowers Short List.
Star-flowered Solomon's Seal
Bastard Toadflax
Fieldmouse-ear chickweed
Prairie crocus
Stinkweed
Wild Strawberry
Three flowered avens
Early cinquefoil
Early yellow locoweed
Golden bean
Early blue violet
Western Canada violet
Mountain shooting star
Wolley gromwell
Smooth blue beardtongue
Northern bedstraw
Pussytoes
Willow
Buckbrush
Northern gooseberry
Saskatoon
Silverberry
Canada buffaloberry
Flowers found on the Hill
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Two ecoregions occur in Calgary, Aspen Parkland and Fescue Grass.
Nose Hill lies within the Fescue Grass Ecoregion
The lists below show the percentage of various plant community types which occur on the Hill.
Deciduous Tree Cover Types
1.7%.....Aspen/Rose
1.2%.....Aspen/Smooth Brome
<1%......Balsam Poplar/Rose
<1%......Aspen/Snowberry
Deciduous Shrub Cover Types
2.1%.....Rose/Snowberry
1.9%.....Willow/Snowberry
1.8%.....Snowberry
1.2%.....Poplar/Dandelion
<1%......Choke Cherry/Snowberry
<1%......Saskatoon/Snowberry
<1%......Wolfwillow/Bluegrass
Herbaceous Cover Types
23.7%....Rough Fescue-Parry Oatgrass
18%......Bluegrass
14%......Western Wheatgrass-Bluegrass Phase
13.8%....Rough Fescue-Golden Bean
10%......Smooth Brome
3.8%.....Smooth Brome-Quack Grass
2.8%.....Western Wheatgrass
<1%......Alfalfa-Wheatgrass
<1%......Needle Grass-Parry Oatgrass
(Source of Information: Biophysical and Land Use Inventory and Analysis of Nose Hill Park, December 1993, For the City of Calgary.)