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.

As we all left Muncho Lake in the morning to begin our trip back home, we had one last search for wildflowers at Summit Lake, then a north-facing slope a few km east.

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

#8318     9:21     Folded Mountain - the explanation

#8319     9:22     Folded Mountain - the real thing

#8321     10:49     Sheep on the highway.

#8326     11:15     Lingonberry - Vaccinium vitus-idaea - P. 83

#8328     11:35     Mountain Arnica - Arnica latifolia - P. 112

#8331     11:52     Entering a basin beyond the first ridge above Summit Lake.

#8338     12:21     Who am I?

#8344     12:36     Dwarf Nagoonberry - Rubus articus - P. 91

#8351     12:42     Early Blue Violet - Viola adunca - P. 177

#8354     12:44     Orange Hawkweed - Hieraciumaurantiacum - P. 98

#8355     12:47     Moss or Pygmy Gentian - Gentiana prostrata Haenke

#8360     12:54     Starting back down to Summit Lake

#8361     12:54     Mountains north of Summit Lake

#8362     12:55     A Willow

#8364     12:57     Shrubby Cinquefoil - Potentilla fruticosa - P. 43

#8372     13:08     Lapland Rosebay - Rhododendron lapponicum - P. 41

#8379     13:14     One-Leaved Rein-Orchid - Platanthera obtusata - P. 138 - trust me, it does have only one leaf

#8382     13:30     Fairy Parasols - Splachnum luteum - P. 315     Grows on moose dung.

#8384     13:34     Kotzebue's Grass-of-Parnassus - Parnassia kotzebuei - P. 148

#8387     13:37     Horned Dandelion under attack - Taraxacum ceratophorum - P. 97

#8388     13:41     Alpine Springbeauty - Claytonia megarhiza - P. 68, Scotter & Flygare

#8395     14:34     Not one but two Delights - Moneses uniflora - P. 183

#8397     14:37     Small Blacktip Ragwort - Senecio lugens - P. 107, Scotter & Flygare     east of Summit Lake

#8400     09:58     End of the Alaska Highway

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.