DCHP-3

ground hemlock

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Canadian yew, Taxus canadensis.

Quotations

1822
The soil and shelter are so good here that the ground-hemlock, bearing its red berries, constitutes the chief underwood, as in the forests of Canada and Nova Scotia.
1926
Close to the ridge, in a clump of ground hemlock, was [a] stream on whose banks the snow lay a few inches deep.
1956
Two species, the western yew, and the Canada yew or ground hemlock . . . occur in Canada.