BC, Wells Gray, 20080530
WGWI west, fungi and flowers.

Fungi
Flowers
Lichens
Bear

Walked to confluence and back, out via Hoodoo Trail, back via Hemp Creek Trail. Glorious hike!

Fungi

Morchella esculenta []

Pleurotus ostreatus []

GEN on birch log
SPORE print sl off-white

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus []

GEN on birch log
CAP dull or pale orange
GILL vivid orange

brown-spored pluteus []

GEN medium to large mushroom, clustered at base of aspen, but not directly on wood apparently, no odor
ST 80x10mm, whitish, smooth, shiny, fibrous, splitting when bent, solid, whitsh inside, no bruising
CAP convex, dry, smooth, matte, whitish with brownish disc and immediate marg, marg split for short distance, ~60mm wide
VEIL none
GILL att, pale brown darkening to cinnamon brown, close, somewhat wavy, not very wide, edges min erose and paler than faces, tissue cellular neither divergent or convergent, cells ~60x20um clear rounded rectangles
cystidia bublbous base, conspic rising above basidia, tipped with mace-like thing with 2-3 or more horns in all directions, ~40um tall, ~20um wide at base, 5um wide at neck
no droplets (but it was dry)
SPORE print brown, dried before I got a good print, cinnamon in mass on gills, 8-9x4-5um, oblong, smooth, no germ pore or apiculus, often sl misshapen, weak fine texture inside, no bubbles
Hebeloma apparently doesn't have wacky cystidia? Inocybe is perfect but has filamentous cuticle (and odor). Pluteus is even more perfect but has pink or at least flesh-colored spore print. Hmmm. I can't figure where to go next...

Coltricia cinnamomea []

(stalked polypore by horse trail)
CAP 7-8mm wide, vase, continuous with narrow stalk, lt cinnamon brown, faintly zoned, min scurfy, depressed, K+ black
PORE beige, decurrent

Suillus lakei []

By horse trail.
GEN med bolete, on trail bank, two within a foot or so, one younger
ST 30x10, bent, reddish-fibrillose like cap, don't see any sign of glands, remnants of veil present as wooly zone near top where pores stop, solid
CAP 40mm wide, convex, dk reddish-brown fibrillose, remnants of wispy veil under margin all around edge
FLESH thick, spongy, pale yellow, no bruising
PORE ochre, sl decur, bruise dark but not blue
SPORE print yellowish-brown

Boletus []

By trail near confluence.
GEN med-large bolete, solitary, on trail bank
ST 70x20mm, broadening below the taper to abrupty point at ground, solid, reticulate ridged, brown on ridge edges, no sign of veil, stain yellow at v base
CAP 40-70mm, deeply convex, fleshy heavy thing, brown but strongly areolate showing off-white flesh through copious cracks, faintly tomentose but not fibrillose
FLESH 15-20mm thick, off-white, firm to sl spongy, not discoloring, no odor
PORE off-white, 2-3 per mm, up to 15mm long, soft, notched
SPORE print lt yellow-brown, smooth, ellip, not lopped, 19-25(35!)x5-6um, some bubbles in many
Looked through Smith's "Boletes of Michigan" at length it doesn't key out, nor are there any matching Boletus with spores this size (long and narrow). The yellow-staining base seems anomalous. It is visible in the dried specimen that molded (alas!), but not the good one that I've kept.

Panaeolus campanulatus []

GEN tiny mushroom, solitary, in dry dirt at edge of trail
ST 30x1mm, flexible and not breaking, no stain or bruise or bleeding, rosy tan darkening to blackish near base, min scurfy
CAP ~7-8mm, bell, dry, smooth, pale tan, solid color, tattered remnants of thin whitish veil hanging from marg, perhaps broadly umbo
GILL pale gray, att, black spores clearly visible at 30x
SPORE print black

Xeromphalina campanella []

Many fresh ones still coming up. Nearly over other available substrate has one of these two, often both.

Lichenomphalia umbellifera []

Some fresh ones still coming up.

Gyromitra esculenta []

Gloeophyllum sepiarium []

Last-years fruiting body. On fallen pines by bluff overlooking Hemp Creek Canyon that one closest to the house.

Flowers

Veronica serpyllifolia serpyllifolia []

On dry open grassy slopes along trail.
GEN tiny plant, decumbent, finely puber with hairs curling upward and back in
LF ess glab but sl ciliate same hairs, opp and nearly simple, bracts alt and sl reduced
INFL pedicels 3mm
PET white w blue lines
STYLE 3mm

Clintonia uniflora []

All over river flood plain, only blooming in one place, but they are all in full bloom there.
GEN lily, in low river plain
LF 3 in whorl at base, oblance, acute, soft hirsute below
INFL solit fl, pedicel long and hirsute, smells wonderful
TEP 6, white, ~21x7mm, whole ~40mm wide, arch gracefully out
STAM 6
fils white, hairy bel
OV 1, sup, glab
STYLE 1, eq stam
stigma simple, comp

Ribes lacustre []

Along trail right above bridge on east side.
GEN shrub, finely thorny all over
LF glab, shiny, palm, biserr, stip
INFL axil rac, hypanth long-stip red-gland, beautiful giraffe-horn-like things!, fls 7mm wide, pedicels joined well bel ov but closer to ov than base, infl stip-gland below joints and on rachis
SEP 5, same as petals
PET 5, pale white with reddish on them
STAM 5, short, anth resting on petals
OV inf, deep marroon around where style comes out
STYLE 2, joined halfway, green, glab

Penstemon fruticosus []

All over bluff edge and hoodoos.
GEN subshrub
ST min puber and finely clear gland puber
LF opp, oblance to lin, blunt serr end, thick, dull, finely clear gland-puber above, glab bel
INFL large showy fls in bracteate rac, 1-2 per node (panicle in larger plants?)
SEP gl-hairy, v narr acute
PET penstemon-like, lt purple, rosy toward base, 40x20mm, sl lanose inside on bottom side of throat
STAM
4 + 1 staminode
anth v d white wooly and stuck together, fils glab
staminode sp long straight fine hairy, att about 10mm up from base of top side of throat
OV min clear gland puber
STYLE glab to v sp gland puber bel, incl but longer than stam

Collinsia parviflora []

On dry grassy sandy disturbed soil, gen in trail.
GEN herb, min clear gland puber
LF opp, small with much longer internodes, lance-lin, 20x3mm, curled under
INFL few per axil, pedicels 10mm or more, spread-ascend, v min papillose-puber
SEP 5, join halfway, lobes narr acute, 5-6mm, lobes 3mm
PET bilab, two white lobes ab, two bluish lobes bel, 1 blu "keel" below, whole 5mm long, petals conspic bent w resp to calyx
STAM 4, no staminode visible, att near base of petals, glab, incl
OV 1, sup, glab, 3 ovules?
STYLE 1, glab, incl

Sisyrinchium angustifolium []

At junction where lower horse trail joins upper.
GEN in dry grassy opening
PET violet with yellow at base
STAM joined 2/3 the way up (all the way when young and fresh)

Viburnum ellipticum []

Scattered in various places, from edge of bog to dry slope above Hemp Creek.
GEN shurb
LF opp, palm-veined, simple, coarsely serrate, ess glab, broadly acute, no stip
INFL well-br'd panicles
SEP v min 5 reddish lobes
PET white, joined at base, whole 6mm wide
STAM 5, short, ~1mm long?
OV 1, inf
STYLE v short

Geum macrophyllum macrophyllum []

GEN herb, by trail, moist area
LF pin, term lflt much larger, palm vein, biserr, lat lflts small, alt tiny then small, sparse near base, hairy
SEP 5, reflex strongly, free?
PET 5, yellow, showy, free
STAM many
OV sup
STYLE many

Osmorhiza []

GEN herb
LF alt, ternate, no stip
INFL pan
SEP 5, whitish, free?
PET none
STAM 5, short
STYLE 2, OV 1, inf, long narr, min strig
H&C doesn't seem to have this one. Only ternate-leaved saxifrage I could find is Tiarella which has 10 stamens. Shoot, no, it's an Apiaceae, probably Osmorhiza, but without a fruit, there's no way to be sure.

Corallorhiza striata []

GEN orchid, in middle of horse trail
ST pinkish
LF not present in fl
INFL spike-like raceme, many fls
TEP pinkish, all w 3 distinct dark-pink lengthwise lines, none lobed, aging purple