Sixteen Mile Creek Valley ANSI supports 523 vascular plant species (530 taxa), with 365 native species (71% of the flora). The native flora sustains a concentration of 105 significant species (Table 2). There is the provincially rare Sharp-leaved Goldenrod (Solidago arguta), Cooper’s Milk-vetch (Astragalus neglectus), Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria flava) and Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica), 16 regionally rare species and 86 species that are locally rare within site district 7E4 (Varga et al. 2001).
Its number of vascular plant species is the third highest for any ANSI in site district 7E4, surpassed only by Bronte Creek and Rouge River Valley ANSIs.Source : Candidate Sixteen Mile Creek Valley Life Science Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANS)I Report, MNR, 2006.
Glenorchy Conservation Area and the Sixteen Mile Creek Valley in Oakville are home to many rare species of wildflowers:
False Mermaid New species not previously reported in ANSI
Painted Trillium New species not previously reported in ANSI
more to come....
