Geology and Wildflowers

Black bears have a wide range of food. This black bear was walking along a beaver dam looking for food. The area is south of the Killarney highway,...

Adjacent to Lake Nipissing is a deciduous forest that grows on an ancient lake bed. The ancient lake bed formed after the last glaciation about 8,0...

In spring, Manitoulin Gold (Hymenoxys acaulis) comes into bloom along the south shore of Manitoulin Island, on the dolomite substrate. The dolomite...

Spring in Ontario's forests can be spectacular with the brief display of the forest ephemeral wildflower plants. Here trillium, toothwort, spring b...

Alvars represent a geologically-influenced habitat. The substrate here is Amabel dolomite. Rare plants grow on alvars. The southern part of Manitou...

At the north end of Lake Kagawong, Manitoulin Island, the land was covered by an ancient lake. Because lake levels changed dramatically following g...

Spring ephemeral wildflowers, like trout lily and spring beauty, are just approaching peak bloom in the Sudbury area. Video by Andy Fyon, May 6, 2012.

If you put some balsam sap on the end of a twig and place the twig on water, the sap spreads out behind the twig and pushes the twig forward. There...

Four Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) mating in a branch above water. These are nonvenomous snakes common in the north that feed on small fis...

Evening light on islands in Deception Bay, Lac Seul Islands Conservation Reserve, north of Sioux Lookout. It is spring and no wildflowers are up ye...

An evening video with songbirds taken along the river in the Lac Seul Islands Conservation Reserve, where it flows into the Deception Bay. The floo...

Artists on Elgin, Sudbury, Ontario Canada presents "Winter Wonderland" a photography show featuring work of Hermina Hubert, Jamie Ruddy, George Hil...

Spring has arrived on the Wanapitei River, south of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Water flow close to shore.

The Little Sturgeon River is a small creek through boreal forest. The creek drains into Lake Nipissing. There is an old portage trail along the eas...

Spring breakup along the Wanapitei River, south of Sudbury, Ontario Canada. The rock on the far side of the river is like a desert - and the unders...

At Carruthers Point, Kingston. Shore alvar is an unusual habitat for plants created by the geology (limestone substrate) and the open exposure alon...

Winter water flow along a narrow section of the Wanapitei River, south of Sudbury, Ontario, January 27, 2011. The wildflowers are sleeping!

70-mile Butte, Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, July 25, 2011. Evening video of the wind and prairie grassland on top of the 70 Mile Butte, ...

A fall day in an open meadow full of goldenrod wildflowers and katydid insects, Burwash, Ontario, August 28, 2011 by Andy Fyon.

Images of Ontario wildflowers.

David Attenborough looks at another meat eating plant - the pitcher plant and how it catches insects. From the BBC.

They have formidable jaws, sticky leaves and killer thorns. Woe betide the insect that comes too near