cneufeld's Identifications

Found in the mid intertidal on a semi exposed rocky beach.

Onchidella cf. carpenteri is also found in Barkley Sound, but as far as I know it has not yet been accepted by the scientific community. Does anyone know if there is a way to tell O. borealis and O. carpenteri apart in the field?

Bright yellow flowers that are small, at about 1 cm diameter, that grow bunched together.

Thick and fleshy leaves that are wider than they are long.

Found in sandy sea beaches and dunes, but quite uncommon on Vancouver Island.

Vulnerable status in Canada.

Shrub about 2m in height on an island in temperate rainforest BC.
Leaves are long and eliptical shaped and lines with little white hairs around the edges
Black round berries emerge from red petals, 1 pair of berries per branch.

Very large in comparison to other barnacle species in the area.
There are vertical rib like projections around the outside of the barnacle pointing down towards the rock. These are very pronounced.
Found in the low intertidal and individuals are further apart compared to colonies of neighbouring barnacle species.

Found along the sandy beach of Pachena Bay about 20cm tall spreading across the beach.
Thing long blades yellow/green.
Very distinct brown spiky flower extending from middle stem.
Blades are soft and spikes are hard.

Wide oval shaped soft/smooth leaves with pointed tips that alternate from stem.
Plant stands about 1 m tall with small round red berries hanging individually under the leaves.
Leaves start halfway up the stem.
Found in the damp understory of the temperate rainforest near the West Coast Trail.

The three rounded teeth of the outer lip can be seen in the observation photos.
The species is found in the rocky intertidal areas.
Colour is grey, falling within the known variation of this species.

Vaccinium ovatum is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub up to 4m tall. The leaves are egg-shaped, leathery, sharp-toothed, and are dark shiny green on the top and paler below. The leaves grow between two and five centimetres long, are distinctly 2-ranked and horizontally disposed. The flowers are white to pink, bell-shaped, and grow up to 8mm long in clusters of three to ten in the axils of leaves. The berries are small (4-7mm wide), round, purplish-black, and shiny. It is commonly found in coniferous forests at low elevations, or on beach fringe close to tidewater. It is distinguishable from similar species, such as Vaccinium alaskaense which has oval to egg-shaped, deciduous leaves and 7-10mm wide berries, and Vaccinium membranaceum which has deciduous, thin, lance-shaped elliptic leaves and purplish or reddish-black, 6-8mm wide berries.