Please note: You must go through private property to reach these oak trees, and many are on treacherous terrain. Please have permission to visit. If you are doing research, message me for the true coordinates as I have moved them in this observation for privacy.

The Garry Oaks on the fringe! These Garry Oaks are growing on Sumas mountain and it is unknown whether they are a remnant of the days when Sumas mountain was an island and had a climate more suitable for Garry Oak, or if they may have been planted long ago by Indigenous peoples. This is one of a very small number of sites where they are known to grow on the mainland in Canada.

We found Garry Oaks growing in several mostly bluffy areas. We noticed a few that are doing gymnastics to try to reach the light (last photo).

on rocks in small stream, common. Starkey Experimental Forest. McCune 33425. Scale bars 1 mm unless otherwise indicated. Seems similar to Schistidium apocarpum, but differs from MFNA account in several respects.