Near telephone pole in second pic.
Cliff side under power lines West thrums
30 m above road
South facing cliff. Angular rock. Shallow soil. Moisture shedding.
Knapweed y
Shooting star. Sask. choke cherry. Fern. Ocean spray. Snowberry. Mahonia. Nine bark. Collpar. Pinguicula. Lithophragma. Onion. Stonecrop. Vetch. Bromtec. Dactglo. death-camas. harsh paintbrush, lomatium triternatum, glacier lily, vulpia, poa bulbosa, delphinium nuttallianum
Wet rocky seepage site.
Marsden Lower rd. extension on upper patches continues down to Kootenay river near Taghum bridge. We drove down road to end of road and saw no more.
Yarrow, knapweed, oceanspray, Festuca rubra, ponderosa pine.
100 or so plants.
Buttercup-leaved suksdorfia.
Wet, rocky seepage site, with camas, sedum, orobanche, mosses and ferns.
RB reported site.
1.4 km along Marsden FSR. Just below road.
Steep south facing slope. Angular rock thin soil layer. Spring moisture. Camas in the thousands. Knapweed yes.
Associated species:
Orchardgrass, woodland star, sulphur cinquefoil, saskatoon, oceanspray, mallow nine-bark, snowberry, Rosa sp. (native), ponderosa pine, weedy forget-me-not, ferns, cheatgrass, blue-eyed Mary, bluebunch wheatgrass, yarrow, hare's foot clover (Trifolium arvense).
Not a terribly species rich site and quite weedy. Poss because of overseeding with orchardgrass, or maybe because it dries out more quickly than other seepage sites.
3.8 km up Marsden FSR.
Small dense patch. Seepage site with moss ferns white saxifrage pinguicula? Lithophragma. Stonecrop. Limulus. Carex. Collpar.
Very dry south east facing slope, with some spring moisture. 100 m along Marsden FSR.
Knapweed Y.
Moss dominated shallow soil. 1000 plus plants
Mahoaqu amelaln achimil tritgra. spirbet, allicer, arctuva, fern (Woodsia, parsley), collpar, bromtec, poa bul
Open canopy.
West side of s Slocan site
With lomatri elymrep rose vetch Saskatoon knapp weed
In partial shade.
This polygon is pretty much delineated by roads and houses. Camas in sun and in shade
South Slocan
Very dense patch
Knapweed yes
Associated species - yarrow lip onus sericeu
Oregon grape lomatri amelaln sulfhcinq hawkweed corycor pussytoes lodge pole Spirea snowberry hawthorn Glacier lily rose bracken
Habitat. Open meadow moisture receiving. Forest ingrowth camas at least 4 m into forest. Paintbrush Kinnickinnik periwinkle
