BOTANY BC is an annual meeting of botanists and plant enthusiasts of British Columbia and is open to anyone interested in plants. They hold a field trip every spring, often in May. The 2008 field trip will be on Savary Island.
In the afternoon of Day #1, Terry McIntosh took us to the White Lake Biodiversity Ranch, near NRC's Radio Observatory. The WGS84 coordinates are 49o 18' 26" North, 119o 37' 41" West.
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White Lake from Google Earth (1 km across, in centre of image)
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Sign at entrance to Biodiversity Ranch.
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Small-flowered Woodland Star - Lithophragma parviflorum - P.268
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Upland Larkspur - Delphinium nuttallianum - P.204
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Desert-parsley - Lomatium macrocarpum or triternatum - P.249
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Large-flowered Tritelia - Brodiaea douglasii - P.296
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Entrance to White Lake
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Forget-me-not - Myosotis discolor - P.184
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Bitterroot - Lewisia rediviva - P.257
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Timber Milk-vetch - Astragalus miser - P.164
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Scarlet Gilia - Ipomopsis aggregata - P.192
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White Lake, looking west
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Fine-leaved Daisy - Erigeron linearis - P.119
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Canadian Butterweed - Senecio pauperculus - P.128
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Rosy Pussytoes - Antennaria microphylla - P.138
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Lemonweed (Columbia Gromwell) - Lithospermum Ruderale - P.185
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Big Sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata - P.67
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Early Blue Violet - Viola adunca - P.180
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Tall Oregon Grape - Mahonia aquifolium - P.72
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Corn Gromwell - Lithospermum arvense - P.185 (another European weed)
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Sulphur Lupine - Lupinus sulphureus - P.159
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Wally Kiel and Bob Holden among the Big Sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata - P.67
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Arrow-leaved Balsamroot - Balsamorhiza sagittata - P.133
Please let me know about any plants that are misindentified!
Surely some are.
If you can email the correct ID to me, I'll be very grateful
(please refer to the number above each photo)
Reference pages are taken from:
"Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia"
by Parish, Coupe and Lloyd.
Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton, AB, 1996.