The Botany/Mycology Group had a well-attended field trip on March 12 to the Tsolum River floodplain trails adjacent to the Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds to see signs of early spring growth.
The new leaders of the group, Véronique M. and Karen C., are adopting a new educational approach to field trips. They pre-selected a few species to focus on, with the aim of having group members learn to identify them. To this end, Véronique followed up with an illustrated guide to the focus species as well as to some additional species that were observed.
The focus species on this trip were:
- tree ruffle liverwort
- palmtree moss
- common script lichen
- licorice fern
- wild ginger
- grand fir
- red alder
Be sure to check out this very useful identification guide which you can download as a PDF file (26.9 MB).