Great Biodiversity at Jericho Park

The biodiversity at Jericho Park this morning was impressive. There was a great diversity of life from butterflies to lupine and everything in between. There was amazing floral diversity on the sandy beach. The blue dune grass and seashore lupine are able to survive with their roots in nothing more than sand. The grass was covered with Triphysaria pusilla (Dwarf Orthocarpus) a native annual plant that has a hemi parasitic relationship with the surrounding grass. To top it off, there were several of my favourite birds, the Northwestern Crow, feeding on the beach, one of their natural feeding grounds.