After hiking around the McAbee Hills, I climbed onto the hills at the same elevation as the McAbee Site to look for fossils and uncovered a few: The McAbee fossils have been dated at 53 million years old and these …Continue reading →
Four posts are ready for publication at this time, to be spaced about 3 days apart. If other posts are completed in the meantime, they may be inserted into the overall schedule. Ready now are: Showy milkweed Red Paintbrush Forget-me-nots …Continue reading →
Mike Ryan has produced an unpublished book on Plants in the Kamloops Area. It can be viewed on One Drive. It is embedded here for anyone wanting a quick view:
Cladonia pleurata are part of the large family of pixie cups, club lichens that resemble tiny goblets. The red color are apothecia (“a spore-bearing structure in many lichens and fungi consisting of a discoid or cupped body bearing asci on …Continue reading →
We hike into the alpine every summer and we enjoy coming across white mountain-heather in bloom. On our last hike into the East Trophy Range, we passed by some in bloom above the treeline. Some of these slow-growing …Continue reading →
When I went to Pinantan Lake, I took some photos on the water and also stopped along the road when I spotted some flowers and berries. There was some smartweed and some aquatic buttercup on the marshy shore areas, but …Continue reading →
We have featured blazing star before (link to article) but we were pleased to run into some in flower in Kenna Cartwright Park at the end of June. A few are featured here: …always a special surrpise to find these …Continue reading →
I know a few spots where I can spot mountain ladyslipper (cypridedium montanum) about this time of year. I was up paddling on Paul Lake and took the time to hike into the spot. There were only 3 plants in …Continue reading →
After paddling on Sullivan (Knouff) Lake, i drove down the Knouff – Vinsula Road and made some stops at interesting spots along the way. At one point I explored a meadow that had a large number of dianthus in bloom …Continue reading →
A drive to the top, then two hikes near the summit. Some wildflowers to share: sticky geranium (geranium viscosissiimum): spotted saxifrage (saxifraga bronchialis): showy jacob’s ladder (polemonium elegans): cut-leaf anemone (anemone multifida): small-flowered pensetemon (penstemon procerus): and, common red paintbrush …Continue reading →
From the start of the Trophy Mountain Trail to the subalpine meadows, stream violets (viola glabella) were abundant. The leaves are heart-shaped with pointed tips and hairy edges. The yellow flowers have the distinct violet petal arrangement, but with purple …Continue reading →