As a lover of flowers, I'd like to share only a few of my favourite Provincial Flowers with you.
In Ontario, the white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum), also known as the wake-robin and the white lily, was officially adopted in 1937. It was recommended by a special committee of botanists to the Ontario Horticultural Association, which canvassed the views of other horticultural societies in the province, also of high schools and collegiate institutes. In a British botanical work published in 1760 there is a reference to the trilliums as "the herb True Love of Canada."
The Act respecting the flag and emblems of Québec, adopted in the fall of 1999, consecrates the blue flag (Iris versicolor Linné) as the new floral emblem of Québec. The blue flag is an indigenous spring flower that grows on over half of Québec’s territory, from the St. Lawrence Valley to the shores of James Bay. The heraldic fleur-de-lis on the Québec flag was long considered the floral emblem of Québec.
To view the entire collection of Canada's Flowers, visit Knight's Canadian Info Collection.
