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Oregon Beaked Moss (Kindbergia oregana)Observer
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Yellow-green to orange-green. Once-pinnate, branches evenly and closely spaced. Sporophytes growing from side of the stem
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Common Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)Observer
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Branches spreading to drooping. Buds sharply pointed, flat green needles with 2 white bands of stomata on the underside. Thick bark ridged, rough and dark brown. Cones have 3 forked bracts.
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Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata)Observer
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Thalloid liverwort with crescent shaped gemmae cups
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Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)Observer
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About 4 meter tall shrub. With alternate evergreen leaves; eggshaped, leathery; sharp toothed. Fruits are dark purplish-black berries, small and edible. Flowers are pink/white bell shaped in clusters or 3-10
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Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)Observer
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Bluish-green in color, Short to long, upright and occur in mats. Leaves are short, with reddish bristle-point.
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Salal (Gaultheria shallon)Observer
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Found on a rock bluff along the beach. Leaves; evergreen, leathery, egg shaped and thick. With winter buds. No dark purple berries or white bell shaped flowers found.
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Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)Observer
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Shrubby plant found on beach bluff. Stem pale green, becoming dull brown with age. Opposite leaves, round deciduous, 7-9 lobes.
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Deer Fern (Struthiopteris spicant)Observer
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Found with two fronds; the sterile lower to the ground, evergreen, leathery leaflets, stipes dark purplish brown, and the fertile leaves upright from the center of the plant, deciduous, much narrower and sometimes rolled in near-tubes around the sori.
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Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)Observer
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Found a beautiful Madrone at the Evergreen Beach back in October. I recognized the tree by its bark displaying its smooth trunk and its older bark peeling off. The leaves are oval evergreen leaves, shiny and leathery. Found with orange-red berries
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Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)Observer
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-Trunk and branches supporting live moss
-Leaves losing chlorophyl, pigment changing and leaflet breaking off at node
