if anyone lives on the Sunshine Coast BC ... these are in fine bloom now A friend took these pix at Gospel Rock in Gibsons BC yesterday 31 March at a social distance They are gorgeous ! Tho the sad part is how human litter (fr chip bags to beer cans) are scattered around the flowers I have also seen these at Smuggler Cove Provincial Marine Park in Halfmoon Bay BC (beyond Sechelt) What EXACTLY is LATIN name for these Lilies? And what is common name? (Édit to add 2 jpg)
Beauty! Erythronium oregonum Those grow at UBCBG, but I have not seen them in the wild. Kind of limited range in BC.
These photos are at Gospel Rock which is the decades-long subdivisive subdivision acreage What is COMMON name? Dog tooth?
Or fawn lily? There is a pink version too??? EDIT to add a couple of jpg from spring 2018 at Gospel Rock to show scale (No - this person was not picking the flowers ... just gently admiring)
The smaller pink species in this area is Erythronium revolutum, which I've personally only seen on Vancouver island.
The Erythronium are called fawn lily, trout lily, dog's-tooth violet, adder's tongue. Where I grew up in Ohio our woods were blanketed with a yellow flowered species that we called "dog toothed violets". The E. oregonum seems to most often be called giant white fawn lily.
Turner & Gustafson, Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest (2006, Timber Press, Portland) have it that E. oregonum ranges to 16 in. tall and E. revolutum to 20 in. Assuming they are still up searching should turn up photos of a cemetery in Victoria that has lawns that are thick with E. oregonum in season.
Here's what they look like at St. Mary's Anglican Church on Salt Spring Island (last week of March, 2016)
Shots of the cemetery population show sections where the Erythronium plants are really packed. However this view is so similar I now wonder if I remembered the location wrongly.
Daniel - it seems to me a few months ago someone fr Victoria was asking about moving this same plant fr their boulevard due to new house next door and contractors parking etc I will see if I can find the thread (way more fun than organizing income tax paperwork !) It would be interesting to know update
Erythroniums (E. oregonum and E. revolutum) are my favourite native flowers, both white and pink. Most people around here call them fawn lilies. Trout lily is the name more often used for Erythronium americanum which is not native to BC. Some areas where you can see (mostly the white fawn lilies) by the thousands on Vancouver Island are: * along Morrison Creek (runs parallel to the Englishman River off of Middlegate Road (photo attached) * Piper's Lagoon in Nanaimo * Puntledge River in Courtenay * Cowichan River (lots of pink fawn lilies - Erythronium revolutum.) * St. Peter Quamichan Churchyard in Duncan * St. Mary's Cemetery in Metchosin
I haven't checked in years, but I saw a nice group of (possibly wild) E. oregonum alongside the old Black Mountain (Baden-Powell) trail above Lion's Bay, not far from the trailhead and parking lot that were obliterated by Hwy 99 construction around 2009. It's above the pullout on Hwy 99 just around the curve NW of the ferry exit ramp.
March 2022 UPDATE tough little plants along the side of the busy road — Gospel Rock ID = E-Flora BC Atlas Page with lots of footsteps and litter by humans at this beautiful spot created by glaciers - I believe it is private property (and pending condos) tho people stop all the time here for the view. (This is looking south toward Keats Isl and Bowen (Cape Roger Curtis) … on a clear day … all the way to WA State. @Willard perhaps you’ll have a chance to view if not already between scouting cherry blossoms (this is nr Franklin Road). Be very careful — wet moss and lichen is slippery and Gospel Rock is steep down to ocean. these are growing amidst moss, lichen, ferns (licorice fern?), grasses, a couple of volunteer apple trees (apple shrubs) plus some healthy and some dead Arbutus plus Douglas fir. And beverage containers and other unfortunate litter The small round flower is unknown to me — the white bloom was low to ground and approx size smaller than Cdn dime (maybe 3/8” diam) if anyone knows names of moss and lichens — I am curious.
At @Margot suggestion, i returned to same spot at Gospel Rock near Gibsons village and took another look at the small white round flowers i have attached a collage of photos of said plant i think it’s that very prolific weedy plant that I first saw in nursery containers (a ride-along plant that came home w me when buying shrubs I would guess 20 yr ago) i think I have asked about this plant on this (maybe outdoor PacNW) forum and I think @Ron B told us the name
Of course! Everyone's first choice of most aggravating weed ever - Cardamine hirsuta, aka Snapweed, Pop weed, Hairy bittercress and, my favourite, &*%#. I saw it first in the 1970s, probably introduced in the soil of a plant I purchased. Before long everyone was talking about how difficult it was to eradicate. It blooms early and sets seed quickly; seed distribution is explosive and, I swear, every last one germinates, often in hard-to-reach places (like the middle of my cactus patch). Plants can produce seed even when they are only 1/4 inch tall. It is apparently fairly tasty as a member of the mustard family but my policy is to pull out every last one the moment I see it so as not to risk an ever bigger 'crop' the next year. There are some Cardamine species native to BC although C. hirsuta is not. It is possible that the plant in your photos is one of them, especially growing as it is in an area which doesn't seem to have many introduced plants - yet.
