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- The spring wildflowers are in bloom on Vancouver Island! When British Columbia emerges from its long damp winter it is an ideal time to look for flowers in bloom. There are a number of different species of beautiful wildflowers that grow along coastal forest trails and riversides.
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Wildflowers. Hiking on Vancouver Island and seeing the meadows, slopes, and trail sides filled with a vast variety of blooming Wildflowers is one of my favourite things to do. The Alaska Saxifrage (Saxifraga Ferruginea) is a perennial flower found on Vancouver Island and most of BC.
Jun 20, 2024 · The flower pictured above is the Hosackia Pinnata, also known as Lotus Pinnatus flower (meadow or bog birds-foot trefoil) - Nanaimo's official floral emblem. It is a signature plant in Harewood Plains - one of only five places on Vancouver Island (and Canada) where it is found.
- Pink Fawn Lily
- Western Trillium
- Lyall’s Anemone
- Pacific Bleeding Heart
- Skunk Cabbage
- Stream Violet
Like the name suggests, the pink fawn lily is pink in colour (although it comes in varying shades of pink) and usually sports a single nodding flower with bent back tepals. The pink fawn lily (Erythronium revolutum)has a pair of large mottled basal leaves. It often carpets the forest floor in moist woodlands along streams and rivers. One of the ear...
This distinctive white flower is easy to identify. It has a large striking single flower with three large petals. With age, these petals turn to pink and purple in colour. Beneath the flower is a set of three broad leaves which are arranged in a whorl. Western trillium (Trillium ovatum) grows in moist forests, along streams and rivers, as well as i...
This small woodland flower is definitely worth looking for. Lyall’s Anemone (Anemone lyallii) has a single white flower with five sepals (which look like petals). It also has leaves in sets of three. However, unlike the trillium, the leaves are lobed and coarsely toothed. This makes each leaf look like three separate leaves. With a little extra wor...
Just starting to come into bloom is Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa). Common in moist forests and alongside streams and rivers, Pacific Bleeding Heart forms a lacy carpet of fern-like green leaves. Clusters of five to fifteen heart-shaped pink flowers dangle from the stem of the plant. The seeds are dispersed by ants which are attracted by...
The bright yellow bracts and immature flowers of Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) have been been out since late March but now the leaves are really starting to develop and namesake smell of the plant lends its pungent odor to the air. Skunk Cabbage (or Swamp Lantern) prefers wet saturated soil. It grows in swamps and fens, wet forests and muck...
The flowers of Stream Violet (Viola glabella) are yellow. Purple lines mark the three lower petals. The two lateral petals are white-bearded. This is one feature that distinguishes it from the Trailing Yellow Violet (V. sempervirens). The dark green heart-shaped leaves have toothed edges and taper to a point. Like the name suggests, this is another...
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The incredible wildflower display on Mount Arrowsmith's "Saddle Route" is absolutely stunning - amazing diversity and number of flowers!
A number of beautiful wildflowers can be seen during spring walks alongside local streams on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Common Wildflowers of Southern Vancouver Island Camas Camassia spp. Fairy-Slipper Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis Seablush Plectritis congesta Western trillium Trillium ovatum Spring gold Lomatium utriculatum Monkeyflower Erythranthe spp. White fawn lily Erythronium oregonum Henderson’s shooting star Primula hendersonii Oregon grape ...
