CURRENT ISSUE:

Spring 2008

• First steps to a backyard flora
• The naturalist's bookshelf
• For Sphagnum’s sake, choose alternative
• New directors at NPSBC
• Potting-up natives for portable gardens
• On plant talkers and plant stalkers
• From red-listed to just another weed - Nighttime botany along the Fraser: The story of the hairy umbrellawort (Mirabilis hirsuta) in B.C.
• Long's Lens: Go ahead and leave the tripod at home
• More of Les: Your botanical homophonic tonic

PAST ISSUES:

Winter 2008

• Remembering Bert Brink 1912-2007
• The naturalist's bookshelf
• New year promose is a "no" to status quo
• Carpet burweed invades RV parks
• Long's Lens: Making a thorough background check
• Book review: Conversations along the garden path
• Book review: Expanded guide adds rest of Rockies
• More of Les: the glossary according to Don
• Cannings' cryptic crossword

Fall 2007

• The Incomappleux discoveries: Three lichen species new to the country, three new to the continent and nine new to the world
• IDF grasslands significantly altered
• Mosquin's mystery
• Colleen McCrory (1950-2007): A tribute to B.C.’s temperate rainforest crusader
• Sand, cacti and sun, but is it a desert? The South Okanagan’s ‘Pocket Desert’ designation brought into question with point by point scrutiny
• Burnet: How B.C. gained botanical diversity
• Native plants, permaculture entwined in new garden Heart Gardens created as a place to learn with the land
• More of Les
• Canning's cryptic crossword

Summer 2007

• Green roofs are growing up
• Sunshine powers sales at VanDusen
• Thirty essays not about plants
• Honours for B.C. conservation hero: Dr. Vernon "Bert" Brink
• Wildlife trees valuable in life and death
• More of Les: Botany made (too) easy
• Revised guide misses the big picture
• Canning's cryptic crossword

Spring 2007

• Luscious, delicious, dioecious: the Pacific Coast trailing blackberry, Rubus ursinus
• Gardening for Wildlife Weekend
• Book Review. Salal: A complex of connections
• I.D. software forgives when you forget
• The species with N fixed in their sites: Notes on B.C.'s native, nitrogen-fixing species and the habitats they enrich
• Long's Lens: Beyond the hype - a digital RAW deal
• Botany BC 2007 in Osoyoos
• Of meadowlarks and antelope brush
• More of Les: A pondweed extravaganza
• Cannings' cryptic crossword

Winter 2007

• A decade of grassroot growth: Long-term research project identifies promising native grasses for coastal restoration and reclamation projects
• B.C. indicator plants online
• Just do it: The devil is in the details. Part 4: The polish and the process
• Flora ID Northwest computer key offer
• Long's Lens: Remember not to forget the memory
• Book Review: A Nature Guide to Boundary Bay
• Creation story revisited ten years on: Society anniversary a reason to celebrate the many individuals that helped shape the organization
• NPSBC 2006: A quick glance back
• Ten year celebrations cause for retreat
• More of Les: A pondweed extravaganza
• Cannings' cryptic crossword

Fall 2006

• Humbled by a curiosity: A grassland encounter and the inward journey from fame and fortune to philosophy
• New director: Hugh Daubeny
• Frank's focus
• Just do it! Keeping the readers awake
• Buffaloberry in B.C.
• Species at risk: the giant helleborine
• Choosy photographers choose SLRs
• More than one way to name a plant: Computers eliminate the page-turning tedium and forced-choice frustration of traditional keys
• Achene attraction: The lure of seeds. On relationships with single-minded radicles, deceptive recalcitrants and the uncultivated nuts we've come to love
• Cannings' cryptic crossword

Summer 2006

• Bigleaf's epiphytic ecosystem: To lovers of mosses, Acer macrophyllum is a standout among its arboreal companions
• NPSBC's newest director: Ron Long
• Just do it! A Taylor-made approach. A series to help get your hard-won scientific research written, published and, ultimately, read.
• Getting close with your new camera
• Species at risk: the giant helleborine. A look at one of B.C.'s most distinctive orchids threatened by hydrological change as well as the usual suspects.
• The latest, greatest, must-have guide: Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
• Plant guide gives nod to non-experts: Plants of Western Oregon, Washington & British Columbia
• New online journal: Pacific Northwest Fungi
• Photo guidelines for 2007 calendar
• Cannings' cryptic crossword

Spring 2006

• Beyond the trees: Arctic oasis. An interpretive glimpse into the beauty and tranquility of the tundra landscape from a veteran B.C. paddler won over by wildness, simplicity and nurturing solitude.
• Mosquin's mystery
• Just do it! A simple approach to a simple problem - writing a paper. A four-part series to help get your scientific research written, published and, ultimately, read.
• Insect intrigue: Meet the gall-makers. Mysterious swellings on your native roses are an invitation to a fascinating new world.
• Establishing a landscape connection. A first and necessary step to repairing the disconnect between our society and the natural world.
• The trial's of Macoun's meadowfoam. Stochastic extinction exacting its toll: one-third of enigmatic species' known sites lost over the last 20 years.
• Is ecological gardening catching on? Garden consultants surprised by mainstream acceptance of environmentally friendly options.
• Haenke's life and times (1761-1816)
• 2007 calendar photography guidelines
• Cannings' cryptic crossword
  

Winter 2006

• Goldstream: More than fish. Diversity, beauty and salmon-fed trees impress members at the NPSBC annual general meeting.
• Salmon for botanists 101
• The big trees of Goldstream
• President's Message: Ten-year anniversary of the NPSBC
• NPSBC: A view of the year that was
• NPSBC Directors
• Flowers for every month of the year
• Council prepares for B.C. weed war. Invasive Plant Council's annual forum will look into early warning and rapid response systems to help keep non-native plants at bay.
• Top 10 challenges to invasive plant management
• Salix tweedyi: An exercise in scarcity. Wherein the writer muses on relative abundance and the glory days of botanical exploration.

Summer/Fall 2005

• The incomparable Incomappleux. B.C.'s stunning inland rainforest features 1000-year-old trees and an unusual diversity of lichens.
• Nine more B.C. plant species under SARA's protection
• Forest Practices Board: Don't cut the coastal Douglas-fir. Forestry watchdog says slow down and mind the red list.
• More sites for Okanagan fameflower. Recent observations of the northwestern endemic Talinum sediforme expand its known range.
• Treasures amidst the alligator lizards: The removal of Scotch broom from a Pender Island outcrop reveals a treasure trove of native wonders.
• Mushroom guru: Fun guy on forays. Author tantalizes local mycologists with demystification of all the rain promises and more.
• The puzzle of the rare prairie lupine: The disappearance and reappearance of Lupinus lepidus var. lepidus in the Sooke Hills has kept one botanist on his toes for more than a decade.
• Book Review: The Earth's Blanket by Nancy Turner. Traditional knowledge in a modern world.

Spring 2005

• The roles of fungi in the boreal forest
• Plant people: A conversation with Terry McIntosh, bryologist & botanical consultant
• Allan Brooks Nature Centre: Learning to appreciate the grassroots
• Botany BC celebrates twenty years of accomplishing nothing
• Claytonia lanceolata: Contesting snow, ice and soil in alpine meadows
• Exploring the bounty of the wild
• The Da Vinci Code in the garden
• Book Review: The golden spruce

Winter 2005

• 10 things everyone should know about native plants
• Convention Centre roof to feature native plants
• The invisible pattern of flowers
• George Wayne Douglas Ph.D., 1938-2005
• The perils of plant photography
• Notes from the alpine: Orobanche uniflora
• Big old cottonwoods

Fall 2004

• NPSBC Annual General Meeting / New Directors
• Call for new editor
• Calendar project update
• An introduction to the seaweeds of British Columbia
• Indian plum in the Salmon River Valley
• North to Alaska: Grass collecting in Northwestern North America
• Controlling the yellow wave
• Book Review: Urban biodiversity: Exploring natural habitat and its value in cities
  

Summer 2004

• Ponderosa: Sober Reflection
• E-Flora BC news and notes
• Fire effects and antelope-brush: Fire not as detrimental as might be expected
• Plant profile: Triphysaria pusilla, the Ant Plant
• Book review: Flames in our Forest: Disaster or Renewal?

Spring 2004

• Giant hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum: A nasty invasive plant species in British Columbia
• Spring plant sales
• The moss triple crown
• Native plants - Aided or abraided?
• Fragaria becomes Potentilla
• The lovely Calypso: Entanglements with fungi and bumble bee
• A reminder to the photographically inclined
• Plant profile: Holdiscus discolor

Winter 2004

• President's message
• 2004 Calendar Project ... and on to 2005
• Editorial: Zero tolerance
• Antelope brush - Bluebunch wheatgrass in the East Kootenay-Rocky Mountain Trench region of British Columbia
• The strange case of pink agoseris (Agoseris lackschewitzii)
• The Mahon Park Stewardship Project
• Tulameen red raspberry and Totem strawberry and the species involved in their derivations

Fall 2003

• A successful Annual General Meeting on Galiano Island
• Workshop report: Botanical Illustration for Beginners
• Smooth goldfields, Lasthenia glaberrima: A new plant for Canada
• Phytogeography: Bringing spatial analyses of plants into the technological world
• Invasive plant strategy for British Columbia
• Mummy berries of Lulu Island
• Plant profile: Lilium columbianum

Summer 2003

• Enjoyable NPSBC Annual General Meeting planned for Galiano Island
• Workshop participants get high studying BC grass
• E-Flora BC update
• But these plants look so nice and green and innocent...
• Solidago canadensis: a North America native plant invading Europe
• Invasion of the monkey-flowers ...
• The Plant Centre at the University of British Columbia's Botanical Garden
• Diane Douglas named honorary lifetime member
• Manual published for growing herbaceous species of the BC Northern Interior
• Plant profile: Acer macrophyllum

Spring 2003

• The new federal Species at Risk Act (SAR) and British Columbia plants
• 2004 NPSBC calendar project
• Gardening for Wildlife - fundraiser with an education spin
• What's in a checklist? Ecology and biodiversity of Richmond at a glance
• Naming plants: from polynomials to binomials to phylocode
• Needle-leaved navarretia (Navarettia intertexta) in the Southern Interior
• Alien plant invaders: Common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare L.)

Winter 2003

• President's message
• NPSBC Herbarium Workshop: Pressed for time
• E-Flora BC
• Lichenologists Anonymous
• Antipodes anomalies - strange plants in New Zealand
• Native plants - not necessarily environmentally and economically beneficial?
• Invasive blackberries endanger native species
• How did it get here? The conundrum of Brown beak-rush's single known occurrence in BC
• Fungus among us: Cryptococcus infections on Vancouver Island
• Plant profile: Sambucus racemosa

Fall 2002

• AGM 2002 held in West Vancouver
• Victoria Flower and Garden Show 2002: follow-up on the award-winning display!
• Lupinus rivularis (riverbank lupine), a little known BC species
• Invasive species to watch for: Cirsium palustre
• Arrow-leaved balsamroot: common but not a weed!
• Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia Benth.) historically present in the Fraser Valley?
• Nancy Turner wins award
• Plant profile: Viburnum edule
• Field trip to Chilliwack Mountain
• Recent publications from the BC Conservation Data Centre
• New Okanagan check-list available

Summer 2002

• Knotweed, a new weed threat
• Leaf shape in Rocky Mountain maple, Acer glabrum Torr.
• How old is that tree? Dendrochronology is more than just 'counting the rings'
• Plant profile: Philadelphus lewisii
• BC Conservation Data Centre News

Spring 2002

• Thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus
• Call for images! - for a new NPSBC online image library of BC native
• Mushroom ecology
• Thinking like a dynamic mosaic: conservation planning for the plant species at risk in northern Garry oak landscapes in BC, part two
• Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team preparing Plants at Risk fact sheets
• Botrychium montanum W.H. Wagner, Western goblin fern

Winter 2002

• Landscape and nursery industry honours environmental stewards
• The spirit of nature at Grandview Community School
• Thinking like a dynamic mosaic: towards a strategy for conserving northern Garry Oak ecosystems, part one
• South Coast Native Plant Study Group
• False fungus frost (feather frost)
• Plant profile: Polystichum munitum

Fall 2001

• Southern Vancouver Island hosts NPSBC Annual Meeting
• New NPSBC directors
• Life lessons in the whirling snow: Moss workshop 2001
• University of British Columbia Herbarium - searchable online
• BC's indigenous mosses are forests within forests
• Pend d'Oreille - a lost land
• Slog in the Bog: the instructor's perspective
• Restoration of Grasslands workshop
• Ethnobotany workshop
• Plant profile: Shepherdia canadensis
• New species in BC: Utricularia ochroleuca update
• Illustrated keys now available

Summer 2001

• The Ktunaxa Ethnobotany Project
• The Mexican mosquito fern (Azolla mexicana) in BC
• New magazine focuses on plant conservation / plant conversation
• Eagleridge: the ecology of a rare urban outcrop
• BC Environmental Stewardship Award
• Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
• John Macoun in God's northern dominion
• Bryophyte gems of the Interior drylands of British Columbia

Spring 2001

• Where on earth is your garden?
• Naturescaping in a prim and proper neighbourhood
• Gardening with native plants in the city
• Wildlife habitat gardening in the South Okanagan
• A North Island hedgerow
• A native garden in north-central BC
• Native plants for drought-tolerant gardens
• Join the Plantwatch team!
• Recovery strategy for Garry oak and associated ecosystems and their associated species at risk

Winter 2001

• President's report
• Abronia umbellata ssp. acutalata: Rarest plant on the planet or the rarest plant in Canada?
• Society for Ecological Restoration, BC Chapter, inaugurated
• BC's new environmental stewardship award
• Land trusts in BC: a promise to protect
• Sustainable harvesting potential of salal (Gaultheria shallon) - case study of a non-timber forest product
• Thomas Nuttall, naturalist
• Tossing rocks into the placid pool of plant taxonomy
• Plant profile: Oplopanax horridus

Fall 2000

• Updating Queen Charlotte's flora
• Status reports on two rare Sanicula species
• New vascular plant species to the BC flora
• The giant chain fern of Texada Island
• The Pacific coast beach strawberry
• Plant profile: Taxus brevifolia
• The Pacific Yew Research Project
• The importance of being earnest ... in reporting
• CDC News: Taxa dropped from previous Provincial Vascular Plant Tracking List

Summer 2000

• Liverworts and mossy hearts
• Native plants enliven BC schoolgrounds
• NPSBC AGM 2000
• New NPSBC Directors
• The phantom orchid in Canada: Rare saprophyte maintains only a toehold in BC
• The complex web of life underground
• The North American red raspberry
• Plant profile: Rubus parviflorus
• Huckleberry August: Chaos and harmony in the classic patch
• Chance distribution or Indian husbandry of American bush cranberry?

Spring 2000

• A northern BC plant tour
• New life grows from Haida's revered spruce
• Native plants of south central BC: past uses and future potential
• Federal government proposes new legislation to protect endangered species
• Endangered vascular plant species in BC
• Pacific Northwest journeys of David Douglas, First plant collector employed by the Royal Horticultural Society
• Plant profile: Lysichiton americanus
• Gondolas amongst the skunk cabbage: Venice of the Pacific
• Some thoughts on sage buttercup (Ranunculus glaberrimus)
• South Coast Native Plant Network
• News from the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team

Winter 2000

• President's message
• Native plant demonstration garden at the Flower Festival - Royal Roads, Victoria
• Native grass seed development
• Pacific Northwest journeys of David Douglas, First plant collector employed by the Royal Horticultural Society
• Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team
• What's in a name?
• Plant profile: Alnus rubra
• Key to Penstemons available

Fall 1999

• Development of a Code of Ethics
• So where are all the rarities: Learning how to look for plants that are out of the ordinary
• Range reference area program cancelled
• Bio-prospecting in British Columbia
• Plant watch program tracks advance of spring
• What's in a name?
• Limnanthes macounii: end of an endemic species
• The western black-fruited hawthorns: more complexity than formerly suspected
• The genus Crataegus (hawthorn) of the Pacific Northwest
• Plant profile: Aster foliaceus
• New native plant periodical announced
• Request for help in tracking gorse distribution

Summer 1999

• Spring weekend in Vancouver
• Proposed photo archive
• New directors
• Code of Ethics
• NPSBC Grass Workshop
• NPSBC Willow Workshop
• What's in a name?
• NPSBC Ethnobotany Workshop
• Notes of food plants important to Interior First Nations
• Plant profile: Cornus unalaschkensis
• Allopolyploidy in western bunchberry
• The explosive pollination mechanism in Chamaepericlymenum canadense L.
• Garry Oak parkland: The ecological gem of southeastern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
• Sex-related seed-predation in Sidalcea hendersonii (Malvaceae)

Spring 1999

• Native plants celebrated at UBC
• Victoria Native Plant Symposium
• Meadowlark Festival: Celebrated annually on the May long weekend
• On common names for plants
• BC gardens go botanically correct
• The gallant arbutus
• Chester (Chess) Peter Lyons (1915-1998)
• Ants and Plants (a Mutualism)
• Plant profile: Ceanothus velutinus
• Uses of tobacco brush

Winter 1999

• President's report
• Living on the Edge: a symposium on the rare plants of BC
• Ecological restoration conference a hit!
• What's in a name?
• The Riverview Lands: Western Canada's First Botanical Garden
• BC Grasslands Conservation Council
• Perennial pepperweed in BC
• Plant keys for computer
• Plant profile: Allium cernuum

Summer / Fall 1998

• AGM 1998: A grasslands weekend
• VanDusen Flower & Garden Show
• BC Model Schools Program
• Summary of the Non-Timber Forest Products Workshop
• Conserving non-timber forest products from northwestern forests
• An opinion on wildcrafting natives
• Lac du Bois grasslands reclamation project
• Botany BC 1998
• Beware the dreaded meefee!
• New research on vine maple
• 'Weed trees' crucial to forest
• What's in a name?
• Plant profile: Amelanchier alnifolia
• Propagating saskatoon
• The Identification of Grasses Workshop
• Garnet Fire Interpretive Site species checklist
• Naramata Nature Trust species checklist
• Nature Trust of BC
• Saving seed

Spring 1998

• Membership survey results
• Helping the Land Heal: A conference on ecological restoration in BC
• A report on the University of Victoria Non-Timber Forest Products Study
• Workshops sponsored
• Making native plant seed available for mainstream land management
• Invasive Plants of Canada Project
• Native Plant Societies
• Menziesia: Some background on the plant which has become the official logo of the NPSBC
• In support of false azalea for the logo and "Menziesia" for the newsletter name
• Archibald Menzies: An early plant collector on the Pacific north and west coast of North America
• Species named in Menzies' honour
• Biogeoclimatic zones for beginners (part two)
• British Columbia Register of Great Trees
• Macoun's meadowfoam and lawn burweed
• What's in a name?
• Native plant gardens in BC
• Professor Nancy J. Turner receives 1997 R.E. Schultes Award
• Landscape architect Judith Reeve wins Gold Georgie
• Gerald B. Straley (1945-1997): In Memorium

Fall / Winter 1997

• Directors discuss Society's role
• Naturescape British Columbia: New Naturescape kit for Southern Interior
• Thefts plague Victoria's Mount Tolmie habitat restoration project
• New species for British Columbia: Clarkia viminae (Onagraceae)
• My favorite native plant
• BEC for beginners (part one)
• Endangered species protection: National initiatives (part one)
• British Columbia plant species designated by COSEWIC as endangered or threatened

Spring / Summer 1997

• Annual General Meeting
• Native plantings on the Roberts Creek jetty
• Evergreen Learning Grounds
• Traditional ways of the Henaaksiala and the Haisla
• NPSBC Committees

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Plant Profiles

Richard Hebda is curator of Botany and Earth History at the Royal British Columbia Museum. He has written a series of articles on Native Plants of British Columbia for the magazine, Coastal Grower. Some of these articles have been reprinted in Menziesia and a number of plant profiles can be viewed at the website of the Royal British Columbia Museum.