Nature Notes from Paradise Meadows

Nature Notes from the Strathcona Wilderness Institute at Paradise Meadows & Buttle Lake, Strathcona Provincial Park

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Latest Flowers

More plants are now blooming up at Paradise Meadows, as the summer continues.
 sticky false asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa)

 three-leaved goldthread (Coptis trifolia) and seed capsules

 Sitka mountain-ash (Sorbus sitchensis)

Many blooms are even more abundant now.
 pink mountain-heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis) & white mountain-heather (Cassiope mertensiana)

 Sitka valerian (Valeriana sitchensis)

mountain arnica (Arnica latifolia)

 bracted lousewort (Pedicularis bracteosa)

Six-inch-long rainbow trout are flourishing in Paradise Creek.

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