Bryophytes of Western Washington
With abundant sporophytes on rotten log.
Behind my parents property there is a large moss bog. This is the first time I have found Sphagnum down there--it is mostly Hylocomium splendens, Kindbergia oregana and Rhizomnium glabrescens. And I found TWO small patches!
Hiking the Boulder River Trail #734 in Darrington, Washington, we discovered many fascinating miniature wonders. This is one of my favorite finds on this hike, as this liverwort specimen was over two inches in length! The largest I have discovered thus far...
Found a patch of white-toothed peat moss on the Boulder River Trail #734 in Darrington, Washington. It looks like a bear scratched this section away from the rock face!
This specimen was observed on Tuesday February 14, 2012 at around 12:00 at Shadow Lake Bog. It was growing alongside Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi. Some of the distinguishing features of this genus include the erect growth with a capitulum atop a stem, they hyaline cells which are significantly larger than the chlorophyll cells, and the bog habitat.
This specimen was observed on Thursday, February 23 2012 at around 13:00 on the Evergreen State College Beach Trail. This moss was found growing in clusters on several fallen branches. Appears to have an almost cushion life form, with the long stems radiating from a central point. Leaves spreading when wet, and highly appressed to the stem when dry.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. This moss lives alongside the trail through the woods on a rotting log. Plant olive green, leaves unicostate. Appears to be new growth- some plants smaller and lighter green.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. This moss lives alongside the trail through the woods here. Plant large, green-transluscent, leaves unicostate, moist and so some plants are starting to shrivel.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. This dendroid moss lived upon a rotting log on the forest floor. The plant did not have rhizome-like rhizoids.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny.
The plant was green, ecostate, growing as a fanning mat on a red alder (Alnus rubra). It hadn't rained in approximately 24 hours, and the plant was starting to dry. Fresh material did not taste like pepper.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. The plant is growing upon a rotting stump, yellow-green with a red stem.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind where I live. The temperature was about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. The plant is growing epiphytically on a young big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) or red alder (Alnus rubra). Plant is is a green cushion.
I observed this moss at approximately 17:00 in the woods behind my house. The temperature was about 55 degrees and sunny. The plant is green, growing upon a rotting log. Very common moss in this area, differentiated from Kindbergia praelonga by its robust branch and leaf patterns.
I observed this organism at approximately 14:00 on a moss walk through the Evergreen beach trail with bryoliogists John Villella, Lalita Calabria, and the winter bryology program. Temperature was about 45 degrees Fahrenheit and drizzling.
The plant is tiny, green, living on a coniferous snag. Leaves incubus and have the “little hands” shape to Leppidoza reptans.
Time was approximately 14:00, temperature about 45 degrees Fahrenheit and lightly raining. This plant is located on a diversion from the main trail, near a crick.
Plant is epiphytic on a big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), growing as a mat along boughs and also draping as a pendant.
Collected specimen at 12:30. Clear sky, approximately 40 degrees Fahrenheit. This was underneath a riparian stand of Gary oaks (Quercus garryana) on what seemed to be a Garry oak that had fallen.
Acrocarpous moss, life form of a large cushion. Leaves falcate-secund, about 8.5 mm long with large brown alar cells. Precurrant costa, elimbate margin.
Time was approximately 14:00 on a walk through the Evergreen beach trail with bryologists John Villella and Lalita Calabria. Temperature was approximately 45 degrees Fahrenheit and lightly raining. The liverwort was observed on a red alder (Alnus rubra) all the way down TESC's beach trail, exposed to the Puget Sound.
Plant hanging mat, almost maroon in color. Leaves complicate-bilobed; ventral leaves shallowly bilobed and auriculate.
Time was 1300 hours. Raining intermittently. Found upon the rooftop gardens on top of the Seminar 2 Building. I think its a Homalothecium spp., but if someone could confirm this that would be groovy. Temperature around 50 degrees. Growing near Polytrichum juniperum.
Got that Polytrichum commune! Time was 1300 hours. Behind the library on a wooded trail. Near Acer macrophylum and Alnus rubra with some Trametes versicolor growing nearby. Also present were some Gaultheria shalon and Mahonia nervosa. Weather was sunny and beautiful. Temperature 58 degrees.
Time: 1200 hours.
Found on humus soil behind the lab buildings, near some Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus. Weather was rainy with a temperature around 48 degrees fahrenheit. Found near Acer macrophyllum and Thuja plicata. Red tips on leaves and entire margin. Woot woot!
Time: 1400
Beautiful sunny day at Glacial Heritage Preserve. Temperature around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Racomitrium canescens growing in abundance in the soil in open sunny prairie. Awns glowing in ecstasy, YAAAOOO!
found on the ground. pinnatly branched in loose mats with stiff stems. the leaves were somewhat curved and noticably pleated with an indistinct leaf margin. the cells were narrow and long about 17-25 um long.
Weather: Grey cloud cover but no rain
I found this in the front yard at a house right beside Mclean Creek Park. The house is located right on the edge of a clear cut. The dominate overstory species in the area range from Douglas fir, Grand fir, and Western Redcedar to Alder and baby Douglas fir growing in the clear cut. Around the edge of the property the most dominate understory species where Red huckleberry, salal, swordfern and some invasive species of blackberry and closer to the road scotch broom.
In the front of the property is an ole apple tree orchard. I have no idea what kind of apple trees they were but they seemed older and had not been pruned in a least 10 years. There were small patches growing somewhat sporadically on 2 of the apple trees, the bigger ones grow on the higher branches.
Weather: Grey cloud cover but no rain
I found this in the front yard at a house right beside Mclean Creek Park. The house is located right on the edge of a clear cut. The dominate overstory species in the area range from Douglas fir, Grand fir, and Western Redcedar to Alder and baby Douglas fir growing in the clear cut. Around the edge of the property the most dominant understory species where Red huckleberry, salal, swordfern and some invasive species of blackberry and closer to the road scotch broom.
This one was growing everywhere in small to medium patches throughout the property. I found it mostly in the sunnier spots in more disturbed areas such as close to the driveway, in the gravel, and even by the fence beside the road.
Weather: Grey cloud cover but no rain
I found this in the front yard at a house right beside Mclean Creek Park. The house is located right on the edge of a clear cut. The dominate overstory species in the area range from Douglas fir, Grand fir, and Western Redcedar to Alder and baby Douglas fir growing in the clear cut. Around the edge of the property the most dominant understory species where Red huckleberry, salal, swordfern and some invasive species of blackberry and closer to the road scotch broom.
I’m not completely sure about the ID on this one; I found patches of Polytrichum juniperium growing on the ground in the more disturbed areas near the driveway. They look similar but the tops of the false Polytrichum where distinctively different and then Polytrichum juniperium.
This project was designed for students enrolled in the program "Bryophyte Taxonomy and Ecology 2012" at the Evergreen State College to record their observations of mosses, hornworts and liverworts of the south Puget Sound bioregion.
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created this project on December 28, 2011
