New alpine plant discoveries from northern BC

Ken Marr presents an illustrated talk about the flora of northern BC including images of the landscapes, rare plants, common plants, a pseudoflower, a puzzling gap in the distribution of several species and what we are learning from DNA markers about the migration of several species. Lots of images of flowers!
Ken Marr has been Botany Curator with the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) since 2001.  He is interested in the classification, biogeography and conservation of terrestrial vascular plants, in particular the alpine flora of northern BC, where most of his fieldwork occurs.  One part of this effort is to use DNA markers to attempt to understand the migration pathway of alpine species into BC following the last ice age and to evaluate evidence for the existence of full glacial refugia within the borders of BC.  This research has taken him to Russia, Alaska, Yukon and more than 70 mountains in northern BC.
His PhD is from the University of British Columbia, MS from U of Hawaii and BA from U of Colorado.  He has taught courses in vascular plant taxonomy at the University of Victoria, UBC, U of Montana and U of Wyoming.  Prior to working at the Royal BC Museum lived in Yunnan Province, China for 2.5 years where he researched the ethnobotany and domestication of several Cucurbits.