Dave Ingram's Natural History Blog

2010
09.01

A Prickly Subject

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Courtenay, Courtenay Airpark, Introduced Species, Lactuca serriola, Prickly Lettuce, Vancouver Island, Weeds / 4 comments

2010
08.20

A Pair of Pacific Parsleys

Category: Flowers, Leaves, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Conioselinum gmelinii, Oenanthe sarmentosa, Pacific Hemlock-Parsley, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Pacific Water-Parsley, South Beach Trail, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 4 comments

2010
08.19

Cow-parsnip Caution

Category: Flowers, Leaves, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Cow Parsnip, Giant Hogweed, Heracleum lanatum, Heracleum mantegazzianum, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, South Beach Trail, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 2 comments

2010
08.06

Dune Tansy Revisited

Category: Dunes, Flowers, Insects, Leaves, Plants / Tag: Beaches, British Columbia, Dune Tansy, Dunes, Hiking, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Schooner Cove, Tanacetum bipinnatum ssp. huronense, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 1 comment

2010
07.31

Schooner Cove Searockets

Category: Destinations, Dunes, Flowers, Plants / Tag: American Searocket, British Columbia, Cakile edentula, Cakile maritima, Dunes, European Searocket, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Schooner Cove, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 2 comments

2010
07.27

Reintroducing a Rare West Coast Plant

Category: Dunes, Environmental Issues, Flowers, Plants / Tag: Abronia latifolia, Abronia umbellata brevifolia, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Pink Sand-verbena, Sand Dunes, Wickaninnish Beach, Yellow Sand-verbena / 4 comments

2010
07.24

Gentians in the Bog

Category: Destinations, Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Gentiana douglasiana, Gentiana sceptrum, King Gentian, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Shorepine Bog Trail, Swamp Gentian, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 2 comments

2010
06.25

Blue-eyed Grass at South Beach

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Iris, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Rocky Outcrops, Shore Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium littorale, South Beach, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 6 comments

2010
06.20

Strolling the Shorepine Bog Trail

Category: Destinations, Flowers, Landscapes, Plants / Tag: Bog, British Columbia, Kalmia microphylla ssp. occidentalis, Labrador Tea, Ledum groenlandicum, Northern Starflower, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Shorepine Bog Trail, Trientalis arctica, Vancouver Island, Western Bog-laurel / 5 comments

2010
06.15

2010
06.10

August Lake Flowers

Category: Flowers, Plants, Shrubs / Tag: Arabis holboellii, August Lake, British Columbia, Dodecatheon pulchellum, Early Blue Violet, Few-flowered Shooting Star, Holbell’s Rockcress, Princeton, Ribes cereum, Road Trip, Squaw Currant, Viola adunca / 1 comment

2010
06.08

Arrow-leaved Balsamroot

Category: Destinations, Flowers, Plants / Tag: Arrow-leaved Balsamroot, Balsamorhiza sagittata, Botany, British Columbia, Okanagan, Princeton, Road Trip, Southern Interior, Sunflower, Wildflowers / 1 comment

2010
06.06

Rough Road to Rhododendron Lake

Category: Destinations, Flowers, Plants, Shrubs / Tag: British Columbia, Pacific Rhododendron, Parksville, Rhododendron Lake, Rhododendron macrophyllum, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 2 comments

2010
05.21

A Good Bloom of Bare-stem Desert-parsley

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: Bare-stem Desert-parsley, Beaches, British Columbia, Kin Beach, Lomatium nudicaule, Tap Roots, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
05.17

Black Twinberry

Category: Flowers, Plants, Shrubs / Tag: Airpark Lagoon, Black Twinberry, British Columbia, Courtenay, Honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata, Wildflowers / Add Comment

2010
05.15

Vexed by Vetches

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: Airpark Lagoon, British Columbia, Common Vetch, Courtenay, Fabaceae, Tiny Vetch, Vancouver Island, Vicia hirsuta, Vicia sativa / 4 comments

2010
05.14

Musing about Mustards

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: Airpark Lagoon, American Winter Cress, Barbarea orthoceras, British Columbia, Courtenay, Mustard, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
05.12

Orchids at Little Qualicum Falls

Category: Destinations, Flowers, Plants / Tag: Brtiish Columbia, Calypso bulbosa, Calypso Orchid, Corallorhiza sp., Coralroot, Heart-leaved Twayblade, Listera cordata, Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park, Orchids, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
05.11

Lovely Lupins

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Comox, Comox Valley, Dunes, Goose Spit, Lupinus littoralis, Seashore Lupin, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / Add Comment

2010
05.09

Small Pink Flowers

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Common Stork's-bill, Comox Valley, Courtenay Airpark, Dovefoot Geranium, Erodium cicutarium, Geranium molle, Geranium robertianum, Herb-Robert, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
05.01

At First Blush

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Plectritis congesta, Sea Blush, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers, Woodhus Slough / Add Comment

2010
04.26

Garden Mustards

Category: Backyard Garden, Flowers, Plants / Tag: Brassica oleracea, British Columbia, Courtenay, Flowers, Garden, Kale, Mustard, Vancouver Island / 2 comments

2010
04.25

Fawn Lilies at the Tsolum River | Podcast #7

Category: Flowers, Plants, Podcasts / Tag: British Columbia, Comox Valley, Courtenay Exhibition Grounds, Pink Fawn Lily, Tsolum River, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
04.23

Pass the Mustard

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: Brassica campestris, British Columbia, Courtenay Airpark, Field Mustard, Introduced Weed, Vancouver Island, Weed / Add Comment

2010
04.17

Lyall’s Anemone

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: Anemone lyallii, British Columbia, Forests, Lyall's Anemone, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / Add Comment

2010
04.14

Purple Dead-nettle

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Courtenay Airpark, Invasive Species, Lamium purpureum, Mint, Purple Dead-nettle, Vancouver Island / 3 comments

2010
04.03

Pink Fawn Lilies Down by the Tsolum River

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Comox Valley, Courtenay Exhibition Grounds, Erythronium revolutum, Lilies, Pink Fawn Lily, Tsolum River, Vancouver Island, Wild Flowers / Add Comment

2010
04.01

Red Listed Pink Heart-Cockle

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Dicentra cardii, Miracle Beach Provincial Park, Pink Heart-Cockle, Red Listed, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 5 comments

2010
03.26

Something Smells at Elk Falls

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Campbell River, Elk Falls Provincial Park, Lysichiton americanum, Skunk Cabbage, Spadix, Spathe, Swamp Lantern, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2010
03.23

Signs of Spring on Lily Lane

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Erythronium oregonum, Erythronium revolutum, Lilies, Miracle Beach Provincial Park, Pink Fawn Lily, Trillium ovatum, Vancouver Island, Western Trillium, White Fawn Lily, Wildflowers / Add Comment

2010
03.22

Spring Gold Part 2

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Chickweed Monkey-flower, Mount Douglas, Saanich, Spring Gold, Tall Oregon-grape, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 2 comments

2010
03.18

Spring Gold

Category: Flowers, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Common Spring-gold, Comox Valley, Crocidium multicaule, Gold Star, Kin Beach, Point Holmes / 1 comment

2010
03.03

Signs of Spring – Salmonberry and Red-flowering Currant in Bloom

Category: Flowers, Plants, Shrubs / Tag: British Columbia, Red-flowering Currant, Salmonberry, Spring / 1 comment

2009
12.17

A Pseudo Mushroom?

Category: Berries, Flowers, Fungi, Plants, Trees / Tag: Karst Creek, Strathcona Provincial Park / Add Comment

2009
11.05

2010 West Coast Wildflower Calendar

Category: Flowers / Tag: 2010 Calendar, British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver Island, West Coast, Wildflowers / 5 comments

2009
10.07

Tansy Ragwort

Category: Flowers, Insects, Introduced Species, Leaves, Plants / Tag: Biological Control, East Sooke Regional Park, Invasive Plants, Tansy Ragwort, Vancouver Island / Add Comment

2009
10.01

White Cockle

Category: Berry Go Round, Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: British Columbia, Courtenay, Courtenay Airpark, Introduced Species, Invasive Plants, Silene latifolia ssp. alba, Vancouver Island, Weeds, White Cockle / 1 comment

2009
09.05

A Tale of Two Tansies

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species / Tag: Common Tansy, Dune Tansy, Dunes, Flowers, Invasive Plants, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Photographs, Strathcona Provinical Park, Tanacetum bipinnatum ssp. huronense, Tanacetum vulgare, Weeds / 1 comment

2009
09.01

Cow Parsnip Seeds

Category: Flowers, Plants, Seeds / Tag: British Columbia, Cow Parsnip, Flowers, Heracleum maximum, Photographs, Rosewall Creek Provincial Park, Seeds, Vancouver Island / 3 comments

2009
08.27

Awesome Asters

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Seeds / Tag: Aster, British Columbia, Comox, Flowers, Hamilton Mac Laing, Introduced Species, Seeds, Weeds / 6 comments

2009
08.25

Back in the Garden

Category: Backyard Garden, Flowers, Insects, Plants / Tag: Butterflies, Cabbage White, Calendula, Echinacea, Flowers, Garden, Insects, Mint, Nature Photography / Add Comment

2009
08.23

Summer on the Wane in the Sub-alpine

Category: Flowers, Plants, Sub-Alpine Flowers / Tag: British Columbia, Erigeron peregrinus, Flowers, Menzies' Burnet, Paradise Meadows, Sanquisorba menziesii, Strathcona Provincial Park, Sub-alpine, Subalpine Daisy, Vancouver Island, Wildflowers / 4 comments

2009
08.19

Garden Flowers

Category: Flowers / Tag: Coreopsis, Flowers, Garden, Joe-Pye Weed, Lavaterra, Liatris, Pink Thrift / Add Comment

2009
08.14

Sunflower Yellow

Category: Abstracts, Flowers, Seeds / Tag: Abstract, Flowers, Garden, Nature, Photographs, Sunflower / 2 comments

2009
08.10

2009
08.08

Thistle Teach You

Category: Flowers, Introduced Species, Plants / Tag: Arctium minus, Bull Thistle, Canada Thistle, Cirsium arvense, Cirsium vulgare, Common Burdock, Invasive Species, Photographs, Thistle, Weeds / 2 comments

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