{"id":5253,"date":"2012-05-22T04:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2012-05-22T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:03:46","slug":"camas-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Camas, et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I headed out with Derek Kite to look for, well&#8230;, whatever we could find. Certainly, we found\u00a0<a title=\"Mommy marmot\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5249\" target=\"_blank\">mommy marmot<\/a>, along with ground squirrels, birds and turtles, but the most striking things we ran across were wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting flower seen was camas. It reminded me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/growwild.kics.bc.ca\/Articles\/KootenayCamasProject\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kootenay Camas Project<\/a> launched by the\u00a0Kootenay Native Plant Society. As the Society says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Common camas,\u00a0<em>Camassia quamash<\/em>, is a native perennial herb with edible bulbs in the lily family. The beautiful blue flowers grow in moist meadows and prairies in southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States. In the Columbia Basin of BC, camas is a rare find, restricted to low-elevation sites in the West Kootenay.<\/p>\n<p>To locate and document camas is a worthy project. The first two pictures show some we found. These are followed by other wildflowers seen on this jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>Two pictures of camas seen Sunday. They are, indeed, lovely.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5254\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/camas120520bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5255\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/camas120520as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also saw mountain arnica,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5267\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/arnicamountain120520s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>smallflower woodland star,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5268\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/woodlandstar120520s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>what I think is (the blue-listed) Sutherland&#8217;s larkspur,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5269\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/larkspursutherlands120520s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and finally some indian paintbrush.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/indianpaintbrush120520s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I headed out with Derek Kite to look for, well&#8230;, whatever we could find. Certainly, we found\u00a0mommy marmot, along with ground squirrels, birds and turtles, but the most striking things we ran across were wildflowers. An interesting flower seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}