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.
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
-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.
She was playing dead in the middle of the trail. I moved her off the trial before my dog could step on her again.
In plain sight on a very popular trail. I'm surprised that no one picked it.
Hypholoma fasciculare, you know it's scary, It's got olive green gills and it will make you so ill, so listen up and be wary.
White irregular rosette shaped cap with red/pink and brown discoloration. A large stick and other debris assimilated by the fruiting body. Stalk dark brown and buried. Found in thick needle duff at base of P.menzeseii.
