Flora
& Fauna Field Tours
BC 2010
Sept. 1 - 8
Species List
| Wildflowers / Bushes / Trees - 78 Species | |||
| Star Solomon's Seal-Smilacina stellata | Rattlesnake Orchid-Goodyera oblongifolia | Western Baneberry-Actaea rubra | Western Pasque Flower-Anemone occidentalis |
| One-sided Wintergreen-Pyrola picta | Field Bindweed-Convolvulus arvensis | Hedge Morning Glory-Calystegia sepium | Beach Strawberry-Fragaria chiloensis |
| White Sweet Clover-Melilotus albus | Bunchberry-Cornus canadensis | Ox-Eye Daisy-Chrysanthemum leucanthemum | Common Yarrow-Achillea millefolium |
| Butter and Eggs-Orthcarpus erianthus | Woolly Mullein-Verbascum thapsus | Hedge Mustard-Sisymbrium officinale | Hooker's Evening Primrose-Oenothera hookeri |
| Yellow Skunk Cabbage-Lysichitum americanum | Fendler's Meadow Rue-Thalictrum fendleri | Narrow-petaled Sedum-Sedum stenopetalum | Large-leaved Aster-Geum macrophyllum |
| Beachside Senecio-Arnica mollis | Pearly Everlasting-Anaphalis margaritacea | Common Tansy-Tanacetum vulgare | Pineapple Weed-Matricaria matricarioides |
| Meadow Goldenrod-Solidago canadensis | False Dandelion-Hypochoeris radicata | Common Sow Thistle-Sonchus oleraceus | Spotted Coralroot-Corallorhiza maculata |
| Bull Elephant's Head-Pedicularis groenlandica | Giant Red Paintbrush-Castilleja latifolia | Swamp Onion-Allium validum | Mountain Jewel Flower-Streptanthus tortuosus |
| Red Fireweed-Epilobium angustifolium | Purple Loosestrife-Lythrum salicaria | Mountain Sorrel-Oxyria digyna
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Water Smartweed-Polygonum coccineum |
| Dove's-Foot Geranium-G. molle | Pine-Drops-Pterospora andromedea | Twinflower-Linnaea borealis | Red Clover-Trifolium pratense |
| Beach Pea-Lathyrus japonicus | Everlasting Pea-Lathyrus latifolius | Bull Thistle-Cirsium vulgare | Canada Thistle-C. arvense |
| Russian Knapweed-Centaurea repens | Pussytoes-Calyptridium umbellatum | Alpine Aster-Aster alpigenus | Monks-Hood-Aconitum columbianum |
| Elegant Lupine-Lupinus lepidus | Giant Mountain Aster-A. modestus | Leafy-headed Aster-A. foliaceus | False Hellebore-Veratrum californicum |
| Rose Twisted Stalk-Streptopus roseus | Nootka Rose-Rosa nutkana | Black Hawthorn-Crataegus douglasii | High Bush Cranberry-Viburnum trilobum |
| Red Elderberry-Sambucus pubens | English Holly-Ilex aquifolium | Red Osier Dogwood-Cornus stolonifera | Thimbleberry-Rubus parviflorus |
| Arbutus-A. menziesii | Oregon White Oak-Quercus garryana | Douglas Fir-Pseudotsuga menziesii | Quaking Aspen-Populus tremuloides |
| Engelmann Spruce-Picea engelmannii | Ponderosa Pine-Pinus ponderosa | Sitka Spruce-Picea sitchensis | White Paper Birch-Betula papyrifera |
| Sitka Alder-Alnus sinuata | Oregon Ash-Fraxinus latifolia | Black Cottonwood-Populus trichocarpa | Common Juniper-Juniperus communis |
| Pacific Willow-Salix lasiandra | Horse Chestnut-Aesculus hippocastanum | Western Red Cedar-Thuja plicata | Western Larch-Larix occidentalis |
| Mountain Hemlock-Tsuga mertensiana | Western Hemlock-Tsuga heterophylla | ||
| Mammals - 17 species | |||
| Elk-Cervus elaphus | Mule Deer-Odocoileus hemionus | Black Bear-Ursus americanus | Coast Mole-Scapanus orarius |
| Yellow Pine Chipmunk-Eutamias amoenus | Cascade Golden-mantled GroundSquirrel-Callospermophillus saturatus |
Columbian Ground Squirrel-Urocitellus columbianus | |
| Coyote-Canis latrans | Pika-Ochotona princeps | Snowshoe Hare-Lepus americanus | Gray Squirrel-Sciurus carolinensis |
| Red Squirrel-Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | Douglas Squirrel-Tamiasciurus douglasii | Harbour Seal-Phoca vitulina |
Harbour Porpoise-Phocoena phocoena |
| Orca-Orcinus orca | |||
| Reptiles & Amphibians - 2 species | |||
| Western Painted Turtle-Chrysemys picta belli | Western Leopard Frog-Rana pipiens | ||
| Butterflies- 7 species | |||
| Monarch-Danaus plexippus | Greenish Blue-Plebejus saepiolus | Western-tailed Blue-Everes amyntula | Pink-edged Sulphur-Colias interior |
| North-west Fritillary-Speyeria hesperis | Silvery Blue-Glaucopsyche lygdamus | Cabbage White-Pieris rapae | |
| Dragonflies - 3 species | |||
| Western Pondhawk-Erythemis collocata | Variable Darner-Aeshna interrupta | Common Green Darner-Anax junius | |
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