BOTANY GROUP REPORT
The Botany group met at Kate’s house on Orchard Park Drive on Monday April 13th. Helen circulated the preliminary version of the Comox Valley Plant List with its illustrated cover pages. Only a couple of additions remain before it goes to the print shop. Terry encouraged everyone to send him lists of their “first bloom sightings” for his Phenology list.
We considered the possibilities of updating the two previous plants list, namely for the Baybrook area by Helen Robinson (2005) and for Mack Laing Park by Harry E. Jackson (1989), looking at copies of each. We then walked around Baybrook and along the foreshore to Shakeside, noting native, introduced and invasive plants present – nothing unexpected. The best strategy would be for various members to keep lists through the spring and summer, and then collate the results in the fall.
