Bow Valley Provincial Park Walk June 26
Terry, the intrepid bus driver, drove twelve of us to Bow Valley Provincial Park where we enjoyed a lovely walk around the Many Springs Trail. Along the way, we enjoyed a variety of spring flowers from the brilliant western wood lily to the demure bracted orchid. The following is a list of species we discovered:
Cut-leaved anemone
Twinflower
Yellow dryad
Shrubby cinquefoil
Bracted orchid
Western wood lily
Blue clematis
Western Canada violet
Star-flowered Solomon’s Seal (berries)
Wild Rose
Red osier dogwood
Pale Comandra
Northern bedstraw
White camas
Cut-leaved anemone
Meadow rue
Red paintbrush
Birchleaf spiraea
Bronze bells
Wild strawberry
Wolf willow
Late yellow locoweed
Buffaloberry (berries)
Brown-eyed Susan (Gaillardia)
Meadow Parsnip
Groundsel sp.
Common pink wintergreen
Bearberry
Showy locoweed
Elephanthead
Common harebell
Wild clover
Wild blue flax
River alder
Northern black currant?
Purple vetch
Yellow peavine?
Northern hedysarum
Sweet cicely
