Wild bog’s. The search for carnivourous plants (Vancouver island and B.C.)

[stevebradford]

Unnamed bog. East Sooke park. Vancover island. Bc

The bog is near some copper mines so we checked that out as well.

And the mine.

No cp’s seen

 

[Carson Hardy]

Wow, we were planning on doing east Sooke today too... But we opted to go check out some mountainous logging roads. Found plenty of D rotundifolia only a few hundred metres past the gate, in most of the ditches.

No photos... Since I left my phone in the car and the girlfriends phone sucks hhaha

I want to go back with someone a little more eager to explore... Steve!

 

[stevebradford]

Wow, we were planning on doing east Sooke today too... But we opted to go check out some mountainous logging roads. Found plenty of D rotundifolia only a few hundred metres past the gate, in most of the ditches.

No photos... Since I left my phone in the car and the girlfriends phone sucks hhaha

I want to go back with someone a little more eager to explore... Steve!

Count me in!


Blind bog. San Juan ridge. Vancouver Island. Bc

Pinguicula vulgaris

Drosera rotundifolia

Seen Drosera rotundifolia and Pinguicula vulgaris

 

[Carson Hardy]

That's why I commented! Would have been a funny Meetup. Mydogs in town and she would have been scared of you r too.

We went up by Jordan River, and ran into some people harvesting cedar bark. Other than that it was a peaceful rainy foggy morning.

 

[stevebradford]

Obo bog. San Juan ridge. Vancouver island. Bc

Drosera anglica, Drosera x obovata, Drosera rotundifolia, Pinguicula vulgaris all growing in one bog!

 

[stevebradford]

McCulloch. Okanagan. Bc.

Worked a bog visit into the summer expedition. The McCulloch area near big white ski hill is full of lakes, swamps and bogs. We only had time to visit one bog but we found Drosera rotundifolia.

And this plant that reminds me of Heliamphora

 

[Jbron]

That’s exciting! Will have to start looking around my area in the Kootenay/Boundary. Used to escape up McCullough back when I was living in Kelowna for school, wasn’t much of a fan of the city

 

[stevebradford]

Kludahk trail. San Juan ridge. Vancouver island. Bc

Seen some boggy areas and real nice Sphagnum with a few small Drosera rotundifolia

 

[Carson Hardy]

I'm going to be dreaming about moss for days.... Thanks for the post!

 

[WillyCKH]

Those red moss are amazing!
I went to check out the Richmond Nature Park in Richmond, BC in Nov.
On the info board it said that there are sundew in the park but after circling the whole trail, we didn't spot anything close or sphagnum moss. Many trees and brushes, and the walk was pretty enjoyable.

 

[H2O]

So jealous you got up to the Kludahk! Without being able to hike a ride with someone in a truck I can get up to them this year. Maybe we can meet at North Main entrance and I can hop in the back of the truck

 

[plantant]

you can use i naturalist in order to find spots were certain plants occur. I used i naturalist to find spots with cypripediums!

 

[Apoplast]

This entire thread makes me wish I lived on Vancouver Island. That and that I should get out an document the CP here in Minnesota. Weve got a decent number of species, but the scenery is well... Less scenic. Great to live vicariously though. Thanks!

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

You're not too far from nice forests and lakes.

 

[Ania]

Those red moss are amazing!
I went to check out the Richmond Nature Park in Richmond, BC in Nov.
On the info board it said that there are sundew in the park but after circling the whole trail, we didn't spot anything close or sphagnum moss. Many trees and brushes, and the walk was pretty enjoyable.

I tried to find the alleged sundews in the nature park last summer but didn't see any either. Picked some blueberries instead. I guess the blueberries have taken over the bog...

 

[WillyCKH]

I tried to find the alleged sundews in the nature park last summer but didn't see any either. Picked some blueberries instead. I guess the blueberries have taken over the bog...

Yes... They were trying to kill some of the blueberry plants by covering them with big black plastic bags.

 

[Apoplast]

@Lloyd Gordon Agreed. There are nice forests relatively close to me. Kind of. I grew up out west and I think some of it is just familiarity. My wife likes the landscape here better than I do. Reminds her enough of where she grew up out east. Our nearest good bog country really is north by a few hours though. Plus, any walk in the woods around here reminds be a bit of this (third party content - may contain ads).

The warm season in this area has a predictable arc to it: from ticks at the first hint of heat (so many it is no surprise to me this is the second center of Lyme disease issues in the States), to an impressive number of deer flies as summer really sets in (I once caught 72 in a single swirl of a butterfly net above my head while walking through the woods), and all the while the number of mosquitoes has quietly and steadily been increasing, but you haven't noticed because you've been trying not to get Lyme and being bit painfully, until there are clouds that mean you need an N95 mask just to filter them out to breath. *Obviously this is a bit of hyperbole for humor.

I enjoy the BC trip reports though. Keep them coming! Maybe someday they'll inspire me to to a better job of checking out sites near me.

 

[FlyTrapKing]

Carnivorous plants can be in so many places even where they are supposed to be. Utricularia i find almost everywhere here in southern ontario, and then sphagnum moss is pretty abundant towards orangeville/grandvalley, and in that moss i have found some sundews and pitcher plants. They arent as abundant as northern ontario but if you look in the right places they are there!

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

I agree, lots of Utric's (often lots of flowers in shallow water) in cottage country north of Toronto. In Sparrow Lake, I would pull up pounds of them on my paddle-you could hear the crackling of the traps. Dews and purp's in the bogs.

 

[FlyTrapKing]

Yes exactly. I see them at conservation areas in Orangeville all the time. That's about 1h north of Toronto.