I saw these while hiking about trying to get to the lower end of the Browns River. I have a great library of field guides to fossils, rocks and minerals, marine creatures and birds, but I only have a Peterson Filed Guide to Rocky Mountain Flowers – hardly an exhaustive reference to the plants and flowers I will find locally on Vancouver Island.
I’m pretty sure that above we have a Bull Thistle, and below a Blue Bonnet.
As it turns out, this is actually Digitalis purpurea – Foxglove