Saw a House finch (heard it first) in a palm tree by the UW Farm and Botany Greenhouse. It had a red chest and head and light brown wings. I could not get a picture.
Shaded ant hill found off the trail next to a bog. I'm not entirely sure what type of ants these are but there are certainly a lot of them.
Small wildflower about a foot off the ground with a thin green stem and thin oval shaped leaves, flowers are purple and open from a cylinder base to a flower with four petals
I observed this caterpillar on the hand rail of the bridge that goes across Deception Pass. It was only a couple inches long, very hairy with the main body being black and the fuzzy clumps that come off of it start in a yellow area and extent out being an orange color.
Saw a House finch (heard it first) in a palm tree by the UW Farm and Botany Greenhouse. It had a red chest and head and light brown wings. I could not get a picture.
Hypochaeris Radicata found by the street side on 11th Ave NE on my walk home after a day of class. Initially I immediately assumed that this was dandelion, but after some helpful comments and further inspection, I decided it was Hypochaeris, or commonly known as false dandelion or catsear. Some features that helped me decide that this was false dandelion has the fuzzy base leafs, and also the "non-waxy" stem.
For more on Pack Forest and context of walk, see daily account for 3/31. Many of these little sprouts lined the water-bogged mining road, but without flowers they were difficult to concretely identify. I was tipped off by the fuzzy stems, but didn't detect any unpleasant odor upon smelling the leaves. Herb Robert is also known as stinky Bob, for it's unappetizing smell, but these leaves smelled more like parsley! The stalks were about 5 inches tall, growing most thickly in the very wettest areas.
Small plant found on the edge of a trail in Ravenna Park. leaves are long and sword shaped and are felt-like to the touch. No signs of flowering and surrounded by herb Robert and snowberry
This small bush had sparse pink/white flowers on it. Growing in full shade, below a douglas fir. Flower reminds me of a carnation
A plant standing about a foot off of the ground. It had leaves in pairs of two that came off of opposite sides of the main stalk. The entire plant was fuzzy, and felt like to the touch. Somewhat resembled deer-tongue. No flowers to be seen.
This old logging road in the valley was destroyed for hiking and straw was brought in to reduce erosion but it brought it lots of weeds too. I wish they would turn these old roads into trails instead of digging them up and making them difficult to hike.
It looks like it could produce berries.
Found fungi on side of a downed tree in deception pass, very dark brown color and situated horizontally and terraced, looks related to oyster mushroom
Small white flower a few inches from the ground with a yellow center and five petals, leaves are dark green and serrated and branch off in pairs of three
Large tree with flaky light brown bark. Looks like a conifer but no cones. Pines have parallel structure that are light green and do not spiral. Pines are almost rubbery to the touch and long and thin
These beautiful little flowers were blooming just along the road at index. The leaves are distinguishable even without flowers due to their being very divided and almost fern-like.
After identifying these thick low growing leaves in Packwood and elsewhere, it was great to finally see one in bloom! There were a few tight patches of fringe cups with these tall flower stalks bordering the road down to the river. The stalks and leaves were very very fuzzy, perhaps to protect the plant from being eaten? Flowers are light pink cups- finally the name makes sense.
Pale blue flowers that droop downwards. Each flower has 6 petals that are fused together to form a bell shape.
Some type of pine with large needles and strange cones coming off of the end of the branches large tree
Flower found growing near path with purple-white flowers that hang downwards and look like bells. Low lying plant with flowers all the way up the stem
