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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Found in indoor planter pot soil. ID based on white spore print, un-attached gills
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Western Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon vehiculum)Observer
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A juvenile and adult two different specimens
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Roosevelt Elk (Cervus canadensis ssp. roosevelti)Observer
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Beautiful herd grouped in two along the trail back to the station after the suspension bridge. Estimated 15 elk - two males spotted. Kept a distance but they stayed near the path eager for us to leave to continue browsing.
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Great Scented Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum [inactive])Observer
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Missing Date
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Mouse-tail Moss (Pseudisothecium myosuroides)Observer
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This sometimes forms creeping irregular mats but here shows it's narrow tapered hanging growth pattern on the bark of a tree. Described as dirt common
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Carpet Pelt Lichen (Peltigera neopolydactyla)Observer
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Broad loosely wavy, blue green body with orange-brown apothecia define this lichen. Rather common.
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Pacific Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium disjunctum)Observer
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This specimen of Gymnocarpium dryopteris was found along the Staircase Rapids Loop trail in the Olympic National Park. As you can see from the picture the fronds are decaying at the end of the season. Oak fern is broadly triangular and 2-3x pinnate.
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Deer Fern (Struthiopteris spicant)Observer
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This specimen of Blechnum spicant, or deer fern, was found along the Rapids Loop Trail at Staircase in the Olympic National Park near a moist bank. It shows the fertile stipe still attached and the low dark green sterile leaves a brilliant color.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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Vanilla Leaf (Achlys triphylla)Observer
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Achhlys triphylla, or vanilla leaf, has long stalks with 3 fan shaped asymmetrical coarsely blunt-toothed leaflets. No flowers were seen. The individuals did not populate a large areas mostly lining the path and numbered around 12. I find it interesting that the leaves if picked smell of vanilla and can be used as an insect repellent.
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Western Rattlesnake Plantain (Goodyera oblongifolia)Observer
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This specimen of orchid- Goodyera pubescens, or rattlesnake plaintain was found along the trail at Staircase before the exit to the 'Big Cedar'. It has an interesting netlike pattern on the leaf and is know to like acidic soils.
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Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)Observer
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poisonous white berry-like drupes, persistent throughout winter
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Cascade Oregon-Grape (Berberis nervosa)Observer
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distinct from Mahonia aquifolium because this plant has 9-19 leathery leaflets instead of 5-9.
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Western Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum aleuticum)Observer
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Palmately branched with dark erect stipe and soft fan-shaped leaves with sori clustered along the leaf margin
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Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata)Observer
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Lunularia cruciata, found in a mat of individual thalloid liverworts - crescent shaped near W door of Lab1.
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Braun's Giant Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii)Observer
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This Equisetum arvense, or common horsetail was found along the walk to the soccer fields. It has the ribbed, hollow, jointed stems, small terminal strobili, whorled microphylls.
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Cooley's Hedge-Nettle (Stachys chamissonis var. cooleyae)Observer
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Found growing uncultivated along the road
