I took a couple of pictures on a hike today and am looking for help to identify them. They are taken in a mixed Pine, Douglas-Fir, Cedar and Hemlock forest. Thanks for the previous help and Thanks again in advance. 1. low trailing ground cover - twinflower 2. grows in small bunches. about 5 inches high - Pipsissewa, Chimaphila umbellata 3. hardly peaks out of the ground - liverwort 4. hairy leaved - hawkweed/cat's ears-type aster family 5. 2 inch long parsley like leaves - at first looks like Yarrow but something similar. While I am really starting to get into native plants and posting here... Does anyone know of a good site for identifying plants in B.C.?
Yeah, I was thinking Achillea too...but this photo looks like opposite leaflets, and yarrow has alternate. ??? And what is the reddish knob-like structure at the center of the rosette? 2 reminds me of Pachysandra. No doubt Ron will clear all this up in a nanosecond.
I was thinking Pachysandra too, but was wondering what it would be doing in a Vancouver Island forest. It's not native there, is it? Maybe it escaped.
I will add that the first creeper is twinflower. The hairy tongue-like leaves in the picture on the right would be one of the hawkweed/cat's ears-type aster family plants common in forests etc. of the region. Dandelion-like heads will probably be creamy or white when open.
These pictures are from west of Nanaimo, past the wastelands. taken in between points A and B on the google map all within 500 feet of the road. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&sour...643,-124.129028&spn=0.03186,0.109863&t=h&z=14