Botany Walk

A dozen members of the Comox Valley Naturalists Society botany group visited the meadows today & found the following in bloom:
Shrubs:
False azalea
Arctic willow
Blueberry (Vaccinium sp. )
Crowberry
Bog Laurel
Pink mountain heather
White mountain heather
Wildflowers:
White marsh marigold
Globeflower
Jeffrey's shooting star
Bunchberry
Slender bog-orchid
Arnica (Arnica sp.)
Common butterwort
Round-leaved sundew
Bracted lousewort (Wood betony)
Deer-cabbage
Three-leaved goldthread
Buckbean
Sitka valerian
Marsh violet
Round-leaved violet
Stream violet
Twistedstalk (Streptopus sp.)
Sticky false asphodel
Cinquefoil (Potentilla sp.) (photo above)
Partridgefoot

Sitka valerian (Valeriana sitchensis)

Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Three-leaved goldthread (Coptis trifolia)

Arnica sp. - possibly Mountain arnica (Arnica latifolia)

Willow sp. - possibly Arctic willow (Salix arctica)

Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

Let me know if I have missed anything on the list. Other plants not quite in flower yet include Arctic lupine. An amazing change from just two weeks ago - the snow is all gone from the meadows leaving the ponds & marshes brimming with water.

New birds: Two female goldeneye (photo below) seen in the meadow pond above. The elusive hermit thrush was also seen by a couple of naturalists.
Along the north portion of the new wheelchair loop trail is an interesting clump of trees with four sub-alpine species all in one grouping: L to R in the photo below: amabilis fir, yellow cedar, mountain hemlock, and white pine.