BOTANY BC
is an annual meeting of botanists and plant enthusiasts
of British Columbia and is open to anyone interested in plants.
This web page shows some of the wildflowers we saw on the hillside.
Botany BC holds a field trip every spring, often in May.
The 2008 field trip will be on Savary Island.
Please scroll down to see the photos.
Click here
to see wildflowers of other days of the Botany BC field trip.
We turned on to the Mt. Kobau Road from Highway #3
at 49o 05' 03" North,
119o 35' 38" West.
We worked our way up the road, stopping
every few km to see the local flowers, guided by Adolf Ceska.
The elevation varied from 670 to 1600 m.
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Scarlet Gilia - Ipomopsis aggregata - P.192
#0875 12:29
Scarlet Gilia - Ipomopsis aggregata - P.192
#0881 12:31
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Choke Cherry - Prunus virginiana ??? - P.58
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Crossflower - Chorispora tenella (not in book)
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Silverweed - Potentilla anserina - P.225
#0911 12:54
Common Hound's-Tongue - Cynoglossum officimale - P.182
#0918 13:10
Arrow-Leaved Balsamroot - Balsamorhiza sagittata - P.133
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Swale Desert-Parsley - Lomatium ambiguum - P.249
#0925 13:28
Spider crawling up the Balsamroot
#0926 13:29
Adolf Ceska - our guide and chief botanist.
#0927 13:32
Fragile ??? Fern - Cystopteris fragilis - P.367
#0932 14:02
Old Man's Whiskers - Geum triflorum - P.222
#0939 14:13
Corn Gromwell - Lithpspermum arvense (similar to lemonweed) - P.185
#0943 14:18
Squaw Currant - Ribes cereum - P.53
#0944 14:31
View of Spotted Lake, Osoyoos Lake and the desert area
east of the lake.
#0947 14:39
Cut-Leaved Daisy - Erigeron compositus - P.118
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Heart-Leaved Arnica - Arnica cordifolia - P.124
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Ballhead Waterleaf - Hydrophyllum - P.188
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Western Spring Beauty - Claytonia lanceolata - P.258
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Yellow Bell - Fritillaria pudica - P.297
#0965 15:17
Western Spring Beauty - Claytonia lanceolata - P.258
#0970 15:30
Vole burrows
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Yellow Bell - Fritillaria pudica - P.297
#0989 15:43
Yellow Montaine Violet - Viola nutallii - P.178 (similar species)
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Spotted Lake - It contains one of the worlds highest concentrations
of minerals: magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts), calcium and sodium
sulphates - In the hot sun of summer, the water of Spotted Lake
evaporates and crystallizes the minerals, forming many white-rimmed
circles: shallow pools that reflect the mineral content of the water
in shades of blues and greens.
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.