VNHS Summer Camp 2005 - Big Bar Ranch - Day 3

The following photos were taken during a botany walk with Terry Taylor on July 6, 2005. The elevation is about 1500m.

Please scroll down to see the photos of Day 3.     Click here to see photos of other days.

Photo     Time     Comment
#1003     9:32   Clustered Broomrape - Orobanche fasciculata - P. 151

#1018   10:01   Yellow Salsify - Tragopogon dubius - P. 115

#1023   10:08   Life on the OK Corral

#1031   10:26   The ferocious bull and his harem

#1033   10:33   Foxtail Barley - Hordeum jubatum - P. 316

#1034   10:35   Elegant Sunburst lichen - Xanthoria elegans - P. 425

#1041   10:47   White Cockle - Silene alba - P. 255

#1044   10:58   White Cockle - Silene alba - P. 255

#1051   11:15   Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum - P. 296

#1056   11:18   Brown-Eyed Susan - Gaillardia aristata - P. 133

#1057   11:21   Triple-Nerved Fleabane - Erigeron subtrinervaus - P. 121

#1065   11:40   Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum - P. 296

#1068   11:42   Lunch stop.

#1069   11:45   Old Man's Whiskers - Geum triflorum - P. 222

#1076   11:52   Meadow Death-Camus - Zigadenus venenosus - P. 305

#1093   12:22   Spreading Daisy - Erigeron divergens - P. 120 - or Aster ericoides - P. 123

#1115   12:52   Brown-Eyed Susan - Gaillardia aristata - P. 133

#1121   13:00   Few-Flowered Shooting Star - Dodecatheon pulchellum - P. 194

#1128   13:31   Rosy Pussytoes - Antennaria microphylla - P. 138

#1132   13:34   Small-Flowered Penstemon - Penstemon procerus - P. 173

#1137   13:40   Wild Blue Flax - Linum perenne ssp. lewisii - P. 264

#1148   14:21   Dalmation Toadflax - Linaria genistifolia - P. 176

#1151   14:27   Cow Parsnip - Heracleum lanatum - P. 244

#1152   15:22   Long-Stalked Starwort - Stellaria longipes - P. 256

#1155   15:42   Soopolallie - Shepherdia canadensis - P. 71

#1156   15:51   Northern Gentian - Gentianella amarella - P. 187

#1166   16:43   Thread-Leaved Phacelia - Phacelia linearis - P. 189

#1167   16:45   Terry says this is a special mushroom, Panaeolus campanulatus, that only grows on ...

#1168   18:19   Coyote Lodge - our home for the week.

#1172   18:55   Washing up!

#1179   20:10   $5 fine for whin...

Many thanks to Terry Taylor for leading the walk and patiently telling me what all the flower names are. Please let me know about any plants that are misindentified! 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 given from:   "Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia" by Roberta Parish, Ray Coupe and Dennis Lloyd. Lone Pine Publishing, Vancouver, B.C., 1996.