Category Archives: Plants and fungi

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 18. Here is a message from Gary and Katy with some plants of interest: Below are photos of … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 16. Here are some flower photos from John B. from Quadra Island, with a few notes. Scouler’s harebell … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 16. Fred N. found a new population of gnome plant (Hemitomes congestum) on the Nymph Falls midland trail. There … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 10. A not-to-be-missed July event is the blooming of Henderson’s checker-mallow (Sidalcea hendersonii) in the Komoks estuary. This … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 9. It’s bloomin’ July! (but doesn’t feel much like it). Here are a few flower highlight photos from … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 7. Here are some notes from Helen R. about some interesting plants at Kin Beach: These two plants, … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 1. Here are some updates from Alison M. on what is in bloom at Paradise Meadows [on July … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 4. John B. discovered a nice patch of elegant rein orchid (Piperia elegans) at Woodhus Slough, and sent along … Continue reading →

Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 2. Here’s a message from John B. about some yellow flowers he found on Quadra Island:“Three yellow beauties … Continue reading →

From an email by Jocie to members of the Botany Group on June 27. A winding boardwalk, edged with lush salal and huge, shiny skunk cabbage leaves, leads to a small bog, known as the “Puntledge Bog” on the east … Continue reading →