I hauled my kayak down to the river to paddle on Kamloops Lake.    There were a few flowering plants on the flat areas above the river.   There was a large patch of sneezeweed (helenium autumnale) in bloom.

Sneezeweed is a perennial that flowers in late summer.   Each plant can produce a large number of flowerheads.   The leaves are sometimes used in snuff, which sometimes results in a sneeze.  It is also used as a cultivar in gardens (we use it on a steep hillside).

Growing in the tall grasses was western false dragonhead (Physostegia parviflora).

Opposite leaves and opposite flowers on a stem which climbs to about 2/3rds of a meter from rhizomes.

And, abundant everywhere are asters and daisies in many forms and locations.

They have a wide variety of habitats and forms, sometimes hard to distinguish.   A few are immediately recognizable, but learning all the many types is a long-term study.

On the lake were pelicans, feeding at the mouth of the Tranquille River where it flows into Kamloops Lake.