Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: fleur sauvage

Probably shinleaf (Pyrole), a wildflower growing in St Bruno Provincial Park. The leaves are said to contain an aspirin-like chemical and were traditionally wrapped around wounds to assist healing.

Red trillium (Trille rouge, Trillium erectum) grows on the forest floor as a spring ephemeral before the leaves of the trees are fully open and block the light. The flowers are pollenated by flies and are said to smell of rotting meat, (for which reason they are sometimes called stinking Benjamins), although I have not noticed this. The outer coat of the seeds is very attractive to ants, which carry them to their nests, and in this way distribute the seeds through the forest. Unfortunately the plants are equally attractive to deer, and a recent explosion of deer numbers in the locality has diminished the numbers of trilliums that can be seen each spring.

Spring Beauty ( Claytonia caroliniana ; Claytonie feuille-large) is a small white ephemeral flower of the forest floor that emerges early in the spring. Seen in St. Bruno Parc, Near Montreal, Quebec.

A spring flower of the forest floor, Dutchman's breeches ( Dicentra cucullaria , Dicentre à capuchin). It is pollenated by bumble bees which are the only insects that can force open the petals . Seen in Parc St Bruno near Montreal.

Hepatica americana; the flowers shoot straight out before the leaves, one of the earliest spring flowers in the woods.

These are cardinal flowers ( Lobelia cardinalis ) growing in the sand at Oka beach near Montreal. The bright red wild flowers are pollenated by humming birds. It's the first time I have found them so I was enormously pleased when I stumbled upon them. (I was looking for frogs at the time). Oka is a fresh water beach on a bulge in the Ottawa river near where it joins the St Lawrence river called the Lake of Two Mountains. Cardinal flowers are in the lobelia family. I didn't have a camera with me so these were taken on a phone camera.