Native Plants Crossword Challenge

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  1. 7. Add its nutritious pollen to flour or smoothies
  2. 8. Chewing the leaves of this popular tree can relieve a sore throat
  3. 9. Berries for purple dye, bark for yellow; many medicinal uses
  4. 11. Dry without bruising;its sweet scent repels flies, gnats, mosquitos
  5. 12. A critical part of the habitat for sea creatures
  6. 14. A city is named after these berries that can be made into dried cakes
  7. 16. Bitter raw, the berry on this bush makes delicious red wine
  8. 17. Provincial flower whose bark makes a dark brown dye.
  9. 18. Before pink purple flowers bloom, cook whole plant as greens
Down
  1. 1. This plant's flowers smell like its name
  2. 2. Pick greens for steaming in the Spring; young roots in soup
  3. 3. Sticky tree buds with fragrant resin
  4. 4. Red shallow dome berry was dried into cakes for winter
  5. 5. Flowers from this big tree can be eaten in early spring salads
  6. 6. They're everywhere for jam, pies and wine
  7. 10. Pitch from this tree coated paddles that were then scorched for a finish
  8. 13. This plant's berries are high in pectin & can be dried like raisins
  9. 15. White poisonous berry; stripped stems can make a broom