Last year, I visited the Honeymoon Bay Ecological Reserve specifically to seek out these flowers. Unfortunately, I'd visited a couple weeks too late, so only a few flowers were still in bloom in this area claimed to have the densest patch of the species in British Columbia. What I did find, however, was a number of weedy invaders throughout the area. Upon reflection, this isn't surprising – this triangular-shaped 6ha (15 acre) reserve is bordered on two sides by road, making it very susceptible to the ecological phenomenon known as the edge effect.

Flickr BPotD Group Pool Pic of the Day: From the same plant family as Erythronium, the centre of a Lilium flower, by Wontolla65@Flickr.

Botany resource link: Stem and Root Anatomy by Wayne Armstrong.