Observations by ozook

Salal is a shrub, creeping to erect with hair branched stems. The leaves are alternate, deep green and leathery. The edges are finely toothed. Among the most common understory shrubs, it can form a layer of continuous shrubbery. The fruits are reddish-blue to dark-purple.

A large, deciduous tree, up to 35mm tall, mature bark dark, ridged and often covered in moss. Leaves are 4-lobed maple pattern turning yellow in the autumn. The fruits are winged, paired and golden-brown. The tree carries great loads of moss and other epiphytic species.

The Rattlesnake Plaintain in an orchid, stout and stiff with distinct leaves. the leaves are basal, thick, dark green with a lighter stripe down the middle. Named for it's distinct patterning on leaves that resemble that of a rattlesnake.

The Red Alder is a deciduous tree growing up to 25m tall, it's bark is thin and gray often with white patches of lichen, the wood and inner bark are red. The Leaves are alternate, elliptic and sharply toothed. The fruits grow in clusters of small brownish cones. More quickly growing but shorter lifespan than other local trees.

The common dandelion is an aster, a perennial herb with milky juice, a simple or branched stem and taproot. The flower stems are naked, the flowers have a single, yellow head that becomes pappus. The leaves are oblong, toothed or lobed taping to a winged stalk.

The Dull Oregon grape is an erect shrub with stiff branches and thick, waxy appearing leaves similar to holly. The leaves are clustered and alternate turning red-purplish in winter, also spiny and deeply toothed. Common in second-growth, closed canopy Dough Fir forests.

Large tree, up to 70m tall, slightly drooping branches, thick bark. The needles are flat, yellow-green with pointed tips. The cones are oval- 5-10 cm long that are green are flowering turning red-brown-grey. They have 3 forked "tails" that extend beyond the scales.

The sword fern in a large fern standing with erect leaves that form a "crown." The leaves are lance-shaped, once-pinnate with alternate leaflets and sharply toothed. The Sori are large and circular withe a round indusium.