Smith’s fairybells – Friends of Ecological Reserves

San Juan River Estuary ER #141 Overview, Biological and Physical

ORIGINAL PURPOSE :To conserve a representative sample of the lower alluvial forest communities on the San Juan River floodplain. Also to protect the redlisted tooth-leaved monkey-flower, endemic to British Columbia. CURRENT PURPOSE: To serve as a benchmark for forest research and to protect early seral floodplain plant communities. See the complete PDF:San Juan River ER

Honeymoon Bay ER #113 Overview: Physical and Biological

12MarchGarry Fletcher113, Reports, Species ListAsarum caudatum, bleeding heart, clasping twistedstalk, Erythronium revolutum), false lily-of-the-valley, pink fawn lily, red columbine, Smith’s fairybells, star-lowered false Solomon’s-seal, trillium, wild ginger

Original Purpose: To preserve showy stands of the rare fawn lily. Physical: The reserve is located where Sutton and Millar creeks issue from the Vancouver Island mountains, depositing alluvial materials in a reach of reduced gradient, 1.5 km upstream from the creek mouth at Cowichan Lake. Sutton Creek winds through the middle of the reserve.