Juniper

Juniperis horizontalis

bearberries

Yesterday, we found bearberry patches, with these beautiful colorings of the leaves.

Bearberry

Arctous rubra
Red Bearberry
Ericaceae - heath family
August6 2011, Moose-skull lake

rubra - red
arctostaphylos - arctic bunch of grapes

blooming May 22 2012

blooming May 29, 2013 mnt Sima

blueberries in bloom

Vaccinium uliginosum subsp microphyllum

July21 2017 Moose Skull Lake

Juniper berries

Juniperis communis ssp alpina  (2023 J. communis var. keeley or var. depressa)
Cupressaceae cypres family
Kusawa sept 16 2009

Ah, so Juniperus is a relative to the big Cypress tree, i learn something everyday :)

there are 3 different kinds of Juniper berry bushes.

I use the berries cooking wild meat, adding a few.
In the winter i will once in a while make a potent tea.

water melon berry

twisted- stalk

Streptopus amplexifolius ssp americanus
Liliaceae lily family

Sept 7 2009, Rainy Hollow (BC)

mmmmm such a delightful berry
taste; sweet and watery
but is edible!
and the jelly very delicious, but for years now i haven't picked enough of them to make jelly.
This morning we had them in pancakes, with other Rainy Hollow berries

The berries first yellow then red and later dark.

trailing black currant

Yet another black currant
It took me forever to positively identify this one,
but now i see it, it is kind of obvious.


Ribes laxiflorum
formerly saxifragaceae saxifrage family
now Grossulariaceae, bittersweet family


Sept 7 2009 Rainy Hollow (BC)

laxus - loose, distant

It looks like this bush has dropped most of its berries, or have they been eaten?
Very unlikely by people, i find that this berry is yet harder to get to than the blueberries in Rainy Hollow. And not that abundant.
I find the taste superior to that of the black currants around my house, which are R. hudsonianum and R. lacustre.