From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on May 25.
Here are a few examples of our amazing local flora, courtesy of John B., with some habitat notes [click a photo to enlarge it]:
- Small-flowered woodland star (Lithophragma parviflorum): meadows, bluffs
- Pink twink (Microsteris gracilis): gravelly/sandy
- Yellow sand verbena (Abronia latifolia): dunes, sandy upper beach
- Pale spring-beauty (Claytonia exigua): dunes, sandy upper beach
- Changing forget-me-not (Myosotis discolor): introduced, but has pretty 2-toned flowers
- Deltoid balsamroot (Balsamorhiza deltoidea): sparse at Oyster Bay and Campbell River estuary; red-listed (imperiled) in BC
- Paintbrush (Castilleja sp., maybe C. miniata or one of them-there paintbrushes): lots of different habitats, often on bluffs
