BOTANY BC is an annual meeting of botanists and plant enthusiasts of British Columbia and is open to anyone interested in plants, serious botanists and amateurs alike. This web page shows some of the wildflowers and plants we saw on the 2009 field trip at Muncho Lake. The next field trip is planned for 2010, at Tofino, BC.

We spent the second day walking in the alpine in the area of the microwave tower above Nonda Creek. The access from the Alaska Highway is 9 km west of Toad River, on the Stone Mountain Access Road, north of the highway. Then we ended up with a BBQ back at the Northern Rockies Lodge.

Please scroll down to see the photos. Click here to see wildflowers of other days of the Botany BC Field Trip.

Photo #   Time     Plant Name                                   Reference

#8125     8:41     Stone Sheep?

#8128     8:59     Driving east from Muncho Lake

#8131     10:01     Single Delight - Moneses uniflora - P. 183

#8134     10:03     Pee stop on the way up the microwave road.

#8135     10:05     Henry Moore sculpture.

#8136     10:06     Mountain Monkshood - Aconitum delphiniifolium - P. 153

#8140     10:25     Mountains to the southwest of the microwave tower.

#8142     10:48     Field Locoweed - Oxytropis campestris (maybe jordalii) - P. 172

#8148     10:54     Data logger of the weather station.

#8156     11:02     Erigeron ???

#8162     11:12     Net-Veined Willow - Salix reticulata - P. 64

#8168     11:17     Shooting Star

#8176     11:23     Subalpine or Snow Butter cup - Ranunculus eschscholtzii - P. 151

#8180     11:31     Looking to the mountains to the west.

#8189     11:43     Looking east to the valley that we drove up.

#8192     11:47     Langsdorf's Lousewort - Pedicularis langsdorfii - P. 192

#8199     11:58     Cutleaf or Narcissus Anemone - Anemone multifida or narcissiflora - P. 149

#8207     12:04     Lousewort - Pedicularis racemosa (maybe) - P. 188

#8210     12:07     Mountain Forget-me-not - Myosotis alpestris - P. 218

#8220     12:14     We went up the hill and down the other side (well, almost).

#8224     12:24     We are interested in all types of plants, aren't we?

#8225     12:24     Alpine Bistort - Bistorta vivipara - P. 198

#8231     12:28     Looking west.

#8232     12:30     Northern Goldenrod - Solidago multiradiata - P. 109

#8237     12:38     Who left this behind?

#8246     12:58     Stoloniferous Saxifrage - Saxifraga flagellaris - P. 143

#8251     13:04     Field Chickweed - Cerastium arvense - P. 201

#8256     13:07     Tall Jacob's-Ladder - Polemonium caeruleum - P. 217

#8264     13:16     White Mountain-Heather - Cassiope mertensiana - P. 80

#8273     13:53     Yellow Anemone - Anemone richardsonii - P. 149

#8282     14:25     Moss or Pygmy Gentian - Gentiana prostrata Haenke - a shy plant, it closes when touched.

#8285     14:31     Some of the botanists on our field trip.

#8287     14:44     A pretty coyote/fox mix.

#8301     19:58     The biggest Northern Groundcone - Boschniakia rossica - P. 355 Coastal book.

#8310     20:31     Elizabeth Easton - Voting for next year's trip - Tofino won.

#8316     21:15     Our evening's entertainment

Many thanks to XX for checking the identification of the plants.
If you know of any mislabeled plants, please let me know
(please refer to the number above each photo).
I can email a photo of the leaves to aid the ID.

Reference pages are taken from:   "Plants of Northern British Columbia",
by Mackinnon, Pojar and Coupe. Lone Pine Publishing, Vancouver, BC, 1992.