heatherrackley's Identifications

This moss was found on a downed log in the teaching gardens at Evergreen. The weather was dry and cold. The leaves are large yellow/green, creeping to arched, once-pinnate, with branches that are evenly and closely spaced. The sporophytes grow fron the side of the stem with black stalks with small papillae. The capsules are inclined, smooth, curved, each with a long beak. It often forms mats on logs, humus and tree bases.

Observed in the Evergreen State College forest next to five other identical plants. Leaves are opposite, 1 pinnea, evergreen, leather serrated and sharp. The base seems also to be "wooded" and looks as if there may be some new growth.

Found between the C & D Seminar II Building.
Spiral leaf arrangement.
Small leathery leaves.
blackish purple leaves.
leaves had serrated edges.
large bush, about 6 feet tall.

Family: Ericaceae
Common Name: Evergreen Huckleberry

A large (40ft plus) example of the big leaf maple or Acer macrophyllum. Located in an open meadow behind the Evergreen State College library, this multi-stemmed specimen is ringed by Gaultheria shallon at it's base, moss on it's trunk, and Lungwort on it's branches. It's leaves like many of the maples in the clearing and across campus are fading to yellow in contrast to the surrounding Douglas fir.

Fronds large, solitary, erect, deciduous, to 3 (sometimes 5) meters tall, rhizomes spreading, much-branched below ground surface, clothed with numerous hairs.

Leaves: Blades triangular, 2-3 times pinnate, hairy, stipes stout, straw colored to greenish, longer than the blades, leaflets 10 or more pairs, mostly opposite, the lowest pair narrowly to broadly triangular, upper ones progressively reduced and lance-shaped; ultimate segments round toothed, margins rolled under.

Sori: Marginal, continuous, covered by rolled leaf margin, indusium not evident.