Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 7, 2020
The overlapping leaves of Thuja plicata are small, only 3-6mm in length (and sometimes as small as 1mm). In quantity, though, they can sustain trees exceeding 70m (230 ft.) in height.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 26, 2019
It had been ten years since I last knowingly encountered Iliamna rivularis, so it was a highlight for me at last weekend’s Botany British Columbia gathering in Rossland.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 10, 2019
Menzies’ penstemon or Menzies’ beardtongue is native to British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Despite growing in rocky, well-draining soils, plants can be spectacularly floriferous as shown in today’s photograph.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 8, 2018
Depending on the taxonomic treatment, Glehnia is either monotypic or ditypic (containing one or two species). In the recently-published Jepson Flora, a single species with two subspecies is recognized, while the Flora of China recognizes two species. However it is treated, though, there is agreement that there is a distinction between the taxon that grows […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 22, 2018
Like the previous Medicago sativa, elegant lupine or dwarf mountain lupine is a member of the pea family, or Fabaceae. The Fabaceae contains about 750 genera and 19000 species, making it the third largest plant family by number of species.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 30, 2018
Ignored or disdained as a “weed tree” for many years by forest industrialists, Pacific or western yew received an unsustainable amount of interest in the last few decades of the 20th century due to the presence of paclitaxel in its bark.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 18, 2018
Although not the showiest of montane plants, this heart-leaved bitter-cress caught the attention of many Botany BC participants at last year’s meeting in Cathedral Provincial Park and Protected Area. It is uncommonly encountered in British Columbia, with a distributional range that barely extends into the province.
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