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Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
These plants are 10-100mm tall acrocarps with a very long sporotphyte. I have one specimen with a sporotphyte that is 3 times its size. It has a red stem and lamelle on the leaves.
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Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
This complex thalloid liverwort likes to grow in mats under drainage, often living submerged for short periods of time. The plant is a lush green, with obvious crescent-shaped gemmae cups, from which it can be easily identified.
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Genus PorellaObserver
chaliseeiflerDescription
Growing in compressed mats, this is one of the most common liverworts that grows on deciduous trees on the north west coast. The leaves are bilobed and are ranked like shingles; underleaves are also present. Leaf cells include complex oil bodies.
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Common Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)Observer
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Missing DateDescription
Bract on cone, can be up to 90 m, usually around 70 m, crown of young trees pyramidal, branches spreading to drooping, bark ridged, rough, and dark brown, needles flat with pointed tips, needles spirally arranged
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Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Bluish green, upright, unbranched, occur in mats or closely associated individuals, leaves upright spreading when dry and spread out when wet, with a short, toothed, reddish bristle-point, common on disturbed mineral soils, sporophytes common, growing from tip, wiry, reddish, 4-angled
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Menzies' Tree Moss (Leucolepis acanthoneura)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Resemble small palm trees, form groups of mini trees, stems upright with a circle of branches at tip, sporophytes grow at tip of plant, capsules hanging, dark and egg shaped to cylindrical, male and female plants easily distinguished when sex organs are present
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Feather Mosses (Order Hypnales)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Irregularly branched, 5-10 cm long usually, leaves flattened and strongly transversely wavy, no midrib, sporophytes grow from side of stem, forms large hanging mats on branches and trunks of trees
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Pacific Yew (Taxus brevifolia)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Evergreen shrub to small tree, 2-15 m high, branches droop, bark reddish, papery, scaly to shreddy. Needles flat, ending abruptly in a fine point, arranged in 2 rows in flat sprays. Instead of a seed cone it produces a single bony seed surrounded by a bright red fleshy cup which is poisonous to humans
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Western Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum aleuticum)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Palmately branched with few or solitary leaves, leaves have dark stipes divided in two at the top and then divided again, oblong sori
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Deer Fern (Struthiopteris spicant)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Medium fern, 2 types of leaves, sterile frond is evergreen, fertile frond is upright and deciduous, leaflets attracted to base
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Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Woody stem with red branches, thick leathery leaves with prominent midvein, leaves are holly-like and spiny, leaflets are usually odd averaging 5, taller than dull Oregon grape
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Stairstep Moss (Hylocomium splendens)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Bipinnately branched, growing in stair-step patterns, one stair annually so you can tell the age by how many steps it has
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Salal (Gaultheria shallon)Observer
chaliseeiflerDescription
Individual pants vary in height from 4 to 15 inches. The plants are upright with alternating leaves. Leaves are thick, shiny, and oval shaped with small teeth.
