Against a background of green, blue, brown, grey; BC's year-round colours.
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| Beach pea, Lathyrus japonicus, among the logs on the Oyster Bay dunes. |
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| Gumweed, Grindelia integrifolia. It's blooming near the shore everywhere. This one was on Tyee Spit. |
The gumweed flowers, according to
my guide, are covered with an extremely sticky latex. Actually, the glue goes much farther. I touched the lower stem of this plant, removing an intrusive dead straw, and my fingers got so glued up that they stuck to the camera.
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| Foxgloves in full sun, Brown's Bay. |
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| Foxgloves in the shade, Elk Falls. |
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| Hardhack, Spiraea douglasii. Likes wet feet, bogs and streams and marshes, but this one was growing on the shore beside a well-watered lawn. |
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| A more modest flower, Silver burweed, with an ambitious name: Ambrosia chamissonis. The flowers are small and greenish, enclosed in their bracts. These are growing just above the high tide line at Oyster Bay. |
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| Black twinberry, Lonicera involucrata. Past the flower stage, but the red bracts remain. Tyee Spit. |
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