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Wild Flowers of Haida Gwaii

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I loved seeing all the wild flowers everywhere on Haida Gwaii – a beautiful bounty.

Wild morning glories. These were growing next to a vegetable garden fence, but we saw them everywhere, even in the forest. These are not bindweed, an invasive plant that looks like morning glory.
Crane’s Bill. Very, very tiny blooms. I found these growing next to a beach.
Wild pea.
Alberta wild rose.
Wild foxglove. These are everywhere too, in forests and next to beaches and roads.
Cloudberry flowers. There are huge numbers of these growing all over. Some of the fruit are already very ripe.
Nope, this isn’t a wild flower, but I thought I would add a picture of a cloudberry. Very sweet with tangy overtones.
Buttercups are so bright and pretty!
And my favourite, daisies.

We also saw many, many bees on Haida Gwaii. Their numbers have been dropping in lots of places so it was fantastic to see them thriving.

Happy Wednesday.

14 thoughts on “Wild Flowers of Haida Gwaii”

    1. Thank, Allan. I agree. Those crane’s bill blooms were so tiny – lilliputian, really – that I almost didn’t see them. Then I was trying not to walk on them as they were growing so close to the ground.

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  2. So beautiful Lynette, some of them I didn’t know would grow wild like Morning Glory. Albert Wild Roae must be very hardy if it can withstand the dryness here and the rain there. Maggie

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    1. I didn’t know that either. They are also much larger. Yes, there were lots of wild roses, and agreed, if they can thrive in a rain forest environment and in Alberta’s dry conditions, too then they are very hardy.

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    1. Yes, the foxgloves were ubiquitous; so pretty. I hadn’t seen such a profusion of wild flowers in a long time. My theory is that given that Haida Gwaii is relatively isolated, it’s just not as exposed to herbicides and other poisons in the environment allowing everything to grow and grow (the temperate climate helps, too). It’s known as the “Galapagos of the North.”

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