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Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Plants were around 3+ feet tall and were found growing in a dense group in a shallow, marshy area near the creek. Most of the brown, flowering "clubs" had gone to seed and were displaying the characteristic feathery down attached to the seeds.
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Golden Weeping Willow (Salix × pendulina tristis)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Long, drooping branches covered in alternately pinnate leaflets. The leaflets are long and narrow and light to dark green. This specimen had already lost many of its leaves. This tree also has a number of large, somewhat twisted branches which made me wonder if it was hybridized from a Salix matsudana.
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Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Dark green, broad, trifoliate leaves with a light green crescent pattern on the lower part of each leaflet, attached to the petiole. The flowers were not present in this specimen, but are composed in a thick inflorescence and are dark pinkish purple. These specimens were growing very close to the ground, in a shallow ditch near the road.
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Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Bracken ferns have large, triangularly shaped fronds that are dark green. The fronds grow from an underground rhizome and can grow from 3-10 ft high. This specimen was beginning to turn brown and will eventually die down to the ground for winter.
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Deer Fern (Struthiopteris spicant)Observer
abbyjean12Description
One of the deer fern's most distinct characteristics are its two different fronds - sterile and fertile. The sterile fronds are dark green, pinnatifid, lie horizontal to the ground, and spread out in a rosette. The fertile fronds stand vertically out of the center of the sterile frond rosette. The fertile frond leaflets are much thinner and widely spread apart than the sterile fronds'. Near the end of summer the fertile fronds turn brown, as they had in this specimen.
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Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Small, oval leaflets that are bright green. Leaves and leaflets are pinnately compound and alternate. The fruit (which was not present) are small, bright red berries that are edible.
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Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Younger tree with the drooping leader, iconic to Western Hemlocks. Had needle-like leaves that were both bright and dark green and were flattened.
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Strawberries (Genus Fragaria)Observer
abbyjean12Description
The plant's leaves occur in groups of three (tri-foliate) and were green with serrated edges. The plant runners were covered in soft white hairs. There were no flowers or fruit present due to the time of year.
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Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Fronds are dark green and have alternating pinnae. Each blade has serrated edges and have two rows of round sori on the underside of each blade.
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Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Very large, flat leaves. The majority of the leaves were still green but some were beginning to turn yellow. The tree looked full grown and sections of the trunk were covered with moss.
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Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)Observer
abbyjean12Description
Large, oval-shaped green leaves (some beginning to turn brown and dry out). Thick, rigid central stem. Clustered flowers at the top of the stem. Living flowers were pale green, but many of the flowers were brown and dried out.
Surrounding plants were: bracken fern, Douglas fir
