dkennedy's Identifications

This specimen was collected from the glacial heritage preserve near Littlerock Washington at approximately 1130 hrs.
This bryophyte forms wooly mats, yellow green upon drying with several side branches. Leaves end in a short bristle tip; papillose leaf cells. This life forms forms extensive mats along roadsides, on roofs, and in open exposed areas.

This Orthotrichum was found growing on an alder tree along the waters of Mud Bay. It was about ten feet up in the air, hence the shot from below. There were also extensive mats of Kindbergia on the ground, and a variety of lichens on the tree.

Found this on a rotting log in a shady place in the woods. It was surrounded by 3-4 other moss species.

We keyed it to Buckiella undulata. It seems a little lighter than pictures on line show, but it was very wet when we found it, perhaps the moisture changes it slightly.

This moss was found on Thursday 23 February 2012 at around 13:00. It was discovered on a fallen tree growing with other bryophytes, one of which looked like Pleurozium schreberi. Partial/filtered light; very moist. These mosses were growing in interwoven mats and that made a thick layer on the fallen tree and probably housed many insects. Identified by the clearly distinguishable widely spaced pinnate branches.

I think this is the robust variety of moss that grows at higher elevations. I first noticed it at 1,000 feet and the higher I went the more of it I saw.

This picture was taken at 1,800 feet near the north end of Lower Lena Lake in the Olympic National Forest.

It rained and snowed all day long but I was able to stay nice and warm thanks to some glowing coals that had been left behind by some campers.

This grows on my car and it is smaller than most Bryum argenteum but I belive my ID is correct. I believe it is slightly stunted due to disturbances in the boundary layer created by going to the freeway at 75MPH.

This moss can only grow as high and the plastic bra on the hood of my car. The bra provides a nice niche for moss by giving it a place to hold on, giving it some shade and breaking up the boundary layer.

It also probably helps that this car is mostly parked in the shade on the North side of a house in a river valley where a beautiful temperate rainforest probably used to grow.

If I assume that this moss grew on my car before I bought it, my car has enabled this moss to potential spread west to Neah Bay, Wa, east to Albany NY, North to Spokane and South to somewhere in Texas.

Hmmm.. this moss really has not been very far north.

This specimen was collected from the glacial heritage preserve near Littlerock Washington at approximately 1130 hrs.
This bryophyte forms wooly mats, yellow green upon drying with several side branches. Leaves end in a short bristle tip; papillose leaf cells. This life forms forms extensive mats along roadsides, on roofs, and in open exposed areas.

We found this beautiful patch when walking through the woods near summit lake.

Porella is by no means uncommon in this area, but this area had some great specimens of it.

This liverwort in the photo was on a downed log, but most was on living trees. It was extremely plentiful in this area.

This bryophyte was found in the Shadow Lake Bog on Tuesday 14 February 2012 at approximately 12:00. The conditions in which it was discovered includes open forest/flitered light, found off of trail on hummocks in bog, substrate seemed to be leaf litter. Clearly identified by the stair-step growth pattern and twice-pinnately branched stems. Also, found growing alongside several other mosses in the bog inculding what appeared to be Dicranum, Plagiothecium, Brachythecium, and Sphagnum.

Found this on a rotting log in a shady place in the woods. It was surrounded by 3-4 other moss species.

We keyed it to Buckiella undulata. It seems a little lighter than pictures on line show, but it was very wet when we found it, perhaps the moisture changes it slightly.

This Orthotrichum was found growing on an alder tree along the waters of Mud Bay. It was about ten feet up in the air, hence the shot from below. There were also extensive mats of Kindbergia on the ground, and a variety of lichens on the tree.