Ruxton Island Field Guide

Ruxton Island is in the Canadian province of BC, in the warm, sunny Gulf Islands. I'm constantly adding observations. Please enter your photos on iNat's Ruxton Island Biodiversity Project, and I'll add them here. Birds are under 2 headings on the left, due to a glitch in iNat.

true sedges ¹
Carex

Three-way Sedge ²
Dulichium arundinaceum

Russet Cotton-grass ³
Eriophorum chamissonis

crested dogtail grass ⁴
Cynosurus cristatus

bristly dogtail grass ⁵
Cynosurus echinatus

Annual Meadow-grass ⁶
Poa annua

Timothy ⁷
Phleum pratense

broad-leaved cattail ⁸
Typha latifolia

Soft Rush ⁹
Juncus effusus

Slender Rush ¹⁰
Juncus tenuis

Whiteflower Rein Orchid
Piperia candida

Elegant Rein Orchid ¹¹
Piperia elegans

spotted coralroot ¹²
Corallorhiza maculata

western rattlesnake plantain ¹³
Goodyera oblongifolia

Small Camas ¹⁴
Camassia quamash

yellow flag iris ¹⁵
Iris pseudacorus

Hooker's onion ¹⁰
Allium acuminatum

crown brodiaea ¹⁶
Brodiaea coronaria

giant white fawn lily ¹⁷
Erythronium oregonum

checker lily ¹⁸
Fritillaria affinis

Meadow Deathcamas ¹⁹
Toxicoscordion venenosum

Eelgrass ²⁰
Zostera marina

Broad-leaved Pondweed ²¹
Potamogeton natans

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