I thought I was collecting a male hornwort plant but when I got it home I saw the gemmea tubes. Two great finds for me on this day!
Yeeeeeehaw! I finally, finally found one.. no one in my class found one all quarter.. I've been searching for one for for nearly 7 months..
It was on a decommissioned logging road at about 1,100 feet. Perhaps it was brought in on the hay they spread when they decommissioned the road.
There were a lot of them on the road but this was the first one I saw. I think it caught my eye because it was so horny.
I think I got the ID right. I've only seen one other one. This was in an old growth hemlock forest above the douglas-fir line.
In a tiny meadow at 4,300 feet in the Olympics. The base looks a bit succulent
The tree on the summit rock. It must be very old since it is covered with lichens.
Sorry, picture is not very good. This is a white flowered shrub in a tiny meadow at 4,300 feet in the Olympics.
This is a better picture than last time.
Not candysticks but in the same area. I think this one likes Russulas.
This ornamental hardwood tree is covered with lichens. I think it's an aspen or a birch. Ok I can name some of the cryptograms growing on it but I can't name the tree.
On an old logging road this had nice sporophytes. Brown leaf tips, no serrations, sheating margins..
ID'ed with a microscope. I thought this was Anacolia but nope and whole new Genus for me.
This was at about 2,500 feet in a very moist area on an abandoned logging road.
This moss only grows on the scat or animal remains. I'm guessing mountain lion or bear here, due to the abundance of cougar and bear scat I have seen up here over the years.
This moss is hard to find and yet there was a lot of it in this area. There are only three official sightings of Tetraplodon mnioides in Washington state and none of them are in Mason County.
This was on the grade of an abandoned logging road at 2,500 feet in the Olympic Mountains.
beautiful yellow crustose lichen at about 3,500 feet on a partly shady ridge.
Maybe these are the same as the white ones. At 4,500 feet on a dry exposed summit in the Olympic Mountains.
Maybe I got the latin name right this time.. :)
This is a 31 year old specimen from the herbarium and I gave a positve ID to today.
It says it came from "Springer Lake Bog" on September 5, 1981. There was Sphagnum moss stuck to it.
It is wrapped in a newspaper from Kalispell Montana.
I have a new place to look for Matsutake this fall.
