This likes the old roads where it is seepy and the elvation is higher.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Not so rare if you know where to look. I've found it in 4 different places in the Southeast Olympics now. All were at higher elevations on dry exposed unused logging raods. Sadly, a lot of this moss has been destroyed by road decommissioning.
I expect it was everyone at elevation on this road before they decommissioned it.
This was growing on a rotten log next to a trail at about 1,000 feet in a river valley. The bright color caught my eye. I thought it was a moss until I looked at it through my hand lens, then I knew it was a liverwort.
It took me the better part of a day to key it out, but I got there in the end.
I see this in the snow from time to time. I hope someone can tell me what they are. This one was at about 3,300 feet in a clear cut area with tiny hemlock saplings..
Growing epiphytically on TSHE, this specimen had fallen to the forest floor.
Field Journal Entry #1
Time: 10:45
Date: 10/01/12
Route: 45.996841 N, 121.777 W
Brown Creek
Lower South Fork Skokomish River
Olympic National Forest
Mason County, WA
Weather: 75 degrees Fahrenheit, blue skies with some scattered cumulus clouds
Habitat/General Vegetation:
Old Growth PNW forest of primarily Douglas fir and some Giant Western Hemlocks. Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, Gaultheria shallon, Vaccinium parvifolium, Mnium spinolosum, Metaneckera menziesii, Isothecium myosurides, kindbergia oregana, Dicranum fuscescens, Pteridium aquilinum
F-TB03
Time: 1140
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Three red-belted conchs found growing on one P. menziesii snag stump.
70% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB02
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Lobster mushroom infection of R. brevipes poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes not parasitized by H. lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Short stiped white Russula poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes parasitized by Hypomycetes lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
L-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Fruticose, tufted lichen grouped on south side of mature Pseudostuga menziesii. Sorediate podetia found bearing red apothecia up to 2 centimeters in height.
15% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
Cortex and Medulla +: K, P
Small (3 - 10 cm cap) shelf fungus growing in bunches. Orange to tan top with a little bit of black on the edge closest to substrate. White bottom, pores on bottom. Not fully mature.
Habitat: Maple grove off the South Skokomish River trail.
Dominant trees and shrubs: ACCI ACMA PSME TSHE RUUR MANE
Substrate: On a downed Hemlock tree, growing out of a split in the log on the bark and wood. Also growing on another unidentified, wood-like shelf fungus.
beautiful!
Found only one growing by itself on the ground at the base of a large cedar snag.
Height: 14cm
Cap width: 4.9cm
Habitat: Old growth coniferous forest
Several growing on downed logs in the area.
Habitat: Old growth coniferous forest
One of the fruiting bodies found was aprox. 1 meter in diameter. It was incredible!
Other fruiting bodies found were larger than 0.3 meters in diameter.
Underside of fruiting body: white with streaks of brown and staining brown when touched
-long pendulous fruticose lichen
-yellow-green color
-central cord present and large
-fibrils on branches
-branches > 1m length
-Substrate: Acer circinatum branch
-Habitat: mature conifer forest; on a slope with SE aspect
-Elevation: 700 ft.
In plain sight on a very popular trail. I'm surprised that no one picked it.
