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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)Observer
truongjeDescription
The color of the body is a golden color with a light black/ dark color bands. It is hairy and rounded in shape.
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Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)Observer
truongjeDescription
Has a round head shape with small pink flowers. Stems have some small hairs on them and leaves are divided into 3 leaflets, elliptical in shape.
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Pink Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula)Observer
truongjeDescription
Leaves are round and spoon shape and flowers come from here. The flowers seem to be growing in clusters.
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Lawn Daisy (Bellis perennis)Observer
truongjeDescription
Flowers are white to pink and purple in color, the petals surround the centered yellow circular disk shape. The leaves are round and finely toothed.
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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)Observer
truongjeDescription
The body is all black and hairy. Has a bright yellow face and yellow bands near the front and the end of the body. Wings are dark in color.
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Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)Observer
truongjeDescription
The flowers are yellow in color. Stems are hollow and have a somewhat milky substance. Leaves are lanceolate in shape and lobbed.
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Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)Observer
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They are clusters of hollow stalks with many whorls of jointed narrow branches. Fertile stalks are topped with an spore cone.
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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Head is reddish- brown in color and the body is mostly grey with brown and has a white belly. The tail is bushy and has colors black, gray, white, and sometimes a little bit of brown in it.
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Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)Observer
truongjeDescription
The stalks are longer then the fronds. The fronds are triangular in shape and have tripinnate leaflets, with many pinnate sub - leaflets.
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Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)Observer
truongjeDescription
The flowers are pink- purple in color and are 5 petaled. Leaves are pinnately compound.
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Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)Observer
truongjeDescription
Flowers are tubular in shape, 5 lobed, have splotchy white on the inside and grows on a tall stalk. Leaves are ovate in shape.
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Western Starflower (Lysimachia latifolia)Observer
truongjeDescription
The flowers are star shaped and have a pale pink color to them. They are each on a small thread like stalk from the center of 4-8 ovate leaves.
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Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)Observer
truongjeDescription
Flowers are pinkish-purplish in color and grows on a spiny disc green shape base. The stems are spiny and leaves are irregular.
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Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)Observer
truongjeDescription
Usually the top of the tree droops, cones are elliptical in shape and are fairly small. Bark is red-brown in color and is finely furrowed.
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Rhododendrons and Azaleas (Genus Rhododendron)Observer
truongjeDescription
Leaves are elliptical in shape and are evergreen. They also have a leathery texture feeling. When flowers arei n bloom they are usually pink in color and bell shaped, they have 5 lobes that grow in clusters.
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Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)Observer
truongjeDescription
Needles are in bundles and only have 2, they are yellow-green in color. It is a tall tree and if you can see the crown it is conical in shape. The bark of the tree is redish brown
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Armenian Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)Observer
truongjeDescription
The leaves are palmately compound, have 5 ovate leaflets. When flowers bloom they are white, 5 petals and grow in clusters. The berries are red to black in color and edible. Stems have thorns and are red in color.
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Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)Observer
truongjeDescription
Has 5 yellow pedals on its flower. The stems are branched and the leaves are 3 lobed and toothed.
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Oregon Beaked Moss (Kindbergia oregana)Observer
truongjeDescription
They are very green / gold in color and look very feathery and strands lie flat. There are stalks along branches that are fertile and have spores, each have a curved beak.
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Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)Observer
truongjeDescription
Males have feathers that are pink in color on their head and throat. The body is usually a green to gray color. Their bill is not very large but not too short and their tails are broad.
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Black Slug (Arion ater)Observer
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"Garden Slug" The body of this slug is cylinder in shape and is darker in color or reddish brown. The eyes are retractable stalks. Leaves a slime after that you can see in the sun.
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Little Brown Barnacle (Chthamalus dalli)Observer
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They are grayish-white in color and have a conical shape to them. In the center they are green to white in color and have a gap in between. Small and are on rocks.
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Common Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)Observer
truongjeDescription
The body of earthworms have many segments, about 150 segments. It is soft and cylinder in shape. The color ranges from purple to orange. Has no legs.
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Arion Slugs (Genus Arion)Observer
truongjeDescription
Yellow in color and has dark or black spot on the body. Has stalked eyes. The body shape was somewhat cylinder
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Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)Observer
truongjeDescription
The body has segments/plates that are gray in color, it is convex in shape. A pillbug is able to roll into a ball. Head has two antennae and the pillbug has about 7 legs.
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Tube Lichens (Genus Hypogymnia)Observer
truongjeDescription
Looks similar to oakmoss lichen but the tufts have hollow branches and have a gray to blueish and sometimes green color and have dark tiny dots on them. These have fruiting bodies unlike the oakmoss lichen, they are brown and round in shape.
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True Slime Molds (Class Myxomycetes)Observer
truongjeDescription
Not sure if this is a lichen but there was a couple of these on an old snag that had fallen over. It did not want to separate from log/snag it was hard and maybe a crustose lichen?
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
truongjeDescription
fairly small mushroom found it growing near a tree there were one or two small ones near it. The cap has a yellow-ish color and the spores are gilled and fairly dark in color.
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Typical Shield Lichens (Subfamily Parmelioideae)Observer
truongjeDescription
Grows on branches of broadleaf trees and shrubs. Have soft tufts that are forking in shape and are green-yellowish in color. Also has scattered powdery patches.
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Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum)Observer
truongjeDescription
Cap of the mushroom is flat to somewhat convex in shape, it was dark brown to gray in color and to the edge of the cap it became more white around the edges and continued underneath to the mushrooms spores which were pores. The texture on the cap was smooth with some winkles and the overall mushroom was hard. It was directly attached to the base of the tree.
