\nDue to unusual (yet pleasant enough) circumstances, I’ve been walking around town lately. Not that I mind walking; I just usually don’t venture through those places. Yet, I used to, around 25-30 years ago, so they’re familiar enough.<\/p>\n
\nAs one walks along the sidewalk, it’s often a chance to notice wild plants. Even the margin of a parking lot can host an interesting plant. During the walks I’ve been on lately, I’ve noticed a few, stonecrop, I believe, being one.<\/p>\n
\nMore specifically, I’ve noticed what one might describe as a spreading mat of small yellow flowers. Its location is across a gravelly, unplanted region between the edge of a parking lot and the sidewalk. Said place is mown, but otherwise, it seems, untended.<\/p>\n
A gravelly area seems a welcoming habitat for stonecrop, especially in full sun, which this site is. Which exact stonecrop it might be I’m not sure; it’s not a place one is expected to linger to carefully examine a plant. However, my suspicion is lance-leaved stonecrop.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Pojar, J, MacKinnon, A, et al. Plants of Coastal British Columbia.<\/em> Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about plant identification: the tutor mentions stonecrop. Due to unusual (yet pleasant enough) circumstances, I’ve been walking around town lately. Not that I mind walking; I just usually don’t venture through those places. Yet, I used to, around 25-30 …<\/p>\n