by admin | Apr 27, 2017 | Blooming Now
The first flower on a camas plant in the Selkirk College propagation beds. It has been a wet cool spring, and camas are just beginning to flower, two weeks later than usual. The plants have been loving the weather, and growing larger leaves and setting many buds. They...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Blooming Now
Tastes nothing like chocolate! Lomatium macrocarpum is our largest lomatium, with browny purple blooms on large umbels, seen here in flower near South Slocan.
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Blooming Now, Uncategorized
Early spring flowers, such as the glacier lily, are an important nectar source for our native bees, such as bumblebees and mining bees.
by admin | Apr 23, 2017 | Blooming Now
Western Spring Beauty (Claytonia lanceolata) delights us early in spring on moist rocky outcrops. These small and lovely flowers graced a hillside outside of Salmo, blooming just in time for Earth Day.
by admin | Mar 20, 2015 | Camas Blog
March 3, 2015 In this patch of overturned earth, camas leaves are starting to emerge.
