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Western Burning Bush (Euonymus occidentalis var. occidentalis)Observer
shanebustapbj
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Western Burning Bush (Euonymus occidentalis var. occidentalis)Observer
trientalid
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Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus)Observer
rambryumDescription
Odd bony/shelly thing in pellet/scat of river otter. Everything else was seemingly crayfish, but this body part is not recognizable. @maxallen I am wondering if you are familiar at all with this remnant of river otter prey? I am not sure if it is vertebrate or ?? crustaceans?? Mollusc? Likely foraged around a lakeshore.
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Juratzka's Silverwort (Anthelia juratzkana)Observer
rambryumDescription
along subalpine flush. Massive population
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Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)Observer
rambryumDescription
@steveansel this looked unfamiliar to me. growing in rock crook in boulder field
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Snow Threadwort (Fuscocephaloziopsis albescens)Observer
rambryumDescription
in sphagnum compactum. @jstraka
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Northern Haircap Moss (Polytrichastrum sexangulare)Observer
andrewmeltonDescription
Showing infrequent capsules also male plants infected with Lizonia fungus.
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Northern Haircap Moss (Polytrichastrum sexangulare)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
on soil at pool margins. 20-856
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Tufted Tall Mannagrass (Glyceria elata)Observer
bradenjudsonDescription
~150cm tall in shaded skunk cabbage wetland.
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Beaked Tasselweed (Ruppia maritima)Observer
iancruickshankDescription
in brackish river
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Green-winged Teal × Mallard (Anas crecca × platyrhynchos)Observer
jbindernagel
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Dwarf Hesperochiron (Hesperochiron pumilus)Observer
yourpalDescription
Less than 5 plants with flowers. Did not count vegetative plants.
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Red-mouthed Leafy Moss (Mnium spinulosum)Observer
rambryumDescription
On limestone @astorey_botany check out this Pseudosyntrichia from today. I think it is mnium but i was really thrown off
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Frullania hattorianaObserver
rambryumDescription
On conifer trunk. hattoriaana?
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Engelmann's Aster (Doellingeria engelmannii)Observer
jstrakaDescription
Location obscured at request of land-owner.
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba)Observer
bridgetspencerDescription
Serendipitous encounter this evening. I was planning on camping in the area but the road in was muddy from recent rains, and I was worried my car might get stuck in the half mile before the first rec area pullout. I decided to walk the last stretch of road first to assess the sketchiness, travelling mostly along the grassy fenceline. Right at the end before I turned to head back to the car, the owl erupted up from the grass and began flopping around, bill clacking. Busted wing - looked broken and a bit bloody, I suspect from an encounter with the barbed wire fence. I caught it and walked it back to the car, made a couple phone calls, and learned that the closest facility open to taking wildlife at the time was 2 hours away in San Jose, so off we went. If the road had been fine I would have driven the whole stretch and probably not seen the owl at all. I'm not sure how long it has been injured but hopefully it is repairable.
My car likely would have made it regardless. But I’ve rewarded myself with a hotel in San Jose.
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Dicyrtoma hageniObserver
doviendeDescription
Dicyrtoma hageni, forma canadensis, Janssens & Chan 2024
reference: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2325005
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dbltuckerDescription
UID 30 1870
Habitat: on trunk; Bark texture: rough; Height above ground(m): 0.64
Notes: Leaves longer >2x longer than wide, cells <2x longer than wide (rules out aerea), no peppermint smell, leaves ventrad
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Loose-flower Milkvetch (Astragalus multiflorus)Observer
jstrakaDescription
Check ID. A. tenellus or A. miser? Private land, accessed with permission. Locations obscured for now on land-owner request.
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Rattle Milkvetch (Astragalus collinus)Observer
jstrakaDescription
Check ID. Private land. Accessed with permission from land-owner, with locations obscured.
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Sesarmops atrorubensObserver
jstrakaDescription
Upper Bouma falls. Several present.
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Western Matsutake (Tricholoma murrillianum)Observer
rambryumDescription
Through duff on 2nd growth d fir forest floor
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Cololejeunea azoricaObserver
dbltuckerDescription
1795.1 on leaves of plagiochila cristata UID 29
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Arctic Rustwort (Marsupella arctica)Observer
jamie_fennemanDescription
I think - can’t find any actual images/illustrations of this species. Keys here on the BFNA treatment of Gymniomitriaceae online. Minute, thread-like, blackish stems with deeply cup-shaped, unlobed leaves. Growing in wet microsites.
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Robiquetia wasselliiObserver
mattgoodwinDescription
Robiquetia wassellii but won’t let me placehold
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Willow Moss (Fontinalis antipyretica)Observer
jamie_fennemanDescription
In trembling aspen-slough sedge forested wetland, occurring in deepest portions of the wetland
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Book Flapwort (Nardia breidleri)Observer
ptilidiumDescription
on wet mineral soil along creek margin in subalpine
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Russow's Peatmoss (Sphagnum russowii)Observer
jamie_fennemanDescription
Stem leaves broad, blunt-tipped; some with slightly notched apex
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Lindberg's Sphagnum (Sphagnum lindbergii)Observer
jamie_fennemanDescription
Stem leaves broad, rounded, with fimbriate tips. Stems blackish and brittle.
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Broad-lipped Twayblade (Neottia convallarioides)Observer
trientalidDescription
Divers
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Grayleaf Willow (Salix glauca)Observer
andyfyonDescription
Edited: Grey Willow (Salix glauca). See important field ID criteria offered by Bruce Bennett. I initially suggested possible Bebb's Willow (Salix bebbiana), growing on knoll in the middle of an hydromagnesite alkali flat, Atlin, BC, July 17/19.
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Magnificent Leafy Moss (Plagiomnium venustum)Observer
ptilidiumDescription
moist forest on bigleaf maple trunk
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Yellow Oxytropis (Oxytropis campestris)Observer
jstrakaDescription
Check ID with O. sericea? Private land, accessed with permission. Locations obscured for now on land-owner request.
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Western Sheep Moth (Hemileuca eglanterina)Observer
bstarzomskiDescription
large mating aggregation
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Haida Gwaii False Rue Anemone (Enemion savilei)Observer
dianalynn1Place
PrivateDescription
In 1985, this was known as Isopyrum savelei.
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Buttercup-leaf Suksdorfia (Suksdorfia ranunculifolia)Observer
andytaggartsmith
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Crab Eye Lichen (Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides)Observer
wweellllDescription
Found fallen on Big Hump on the Duckabush trail, on the 9th switchback. Under Pseudotsuga and Acer. Altitude 300m.
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Vancouver Island Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus var. glabra)Observer
tgower
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Vancouver Island Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus var. glabra)Observer
tgower
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Tweedy's Lewisia (Lewisiopsis tweedyi)Observer
shanebustapbjDescription
This location has been obscured twice.
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Cotton Deergrass (Trichophorum alpinum)Observer
chloe_and_trevorDescription
Spruce bog.
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Genus AnastrophyllumObserver
dbltuckerDescription
1539 on dry peaty soil with sphag. capill
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Five-ranked Bogmoss (Sphagnum quinquefarium)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
or possibly russowii but this is very five ranked 1536
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Baltic Sphagnum (Sphagnum balticum)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
not sure on this ID in low lying muddy pool. 1538
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Coronula diademaObserver
liamraganDescription
Holy shit this is so cool, what on earth!!! Please correct me if I'm wrong but everything I read online led me to this ID
https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Maxillopoda/Cirripedia/Coronula_diadema.html
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Crab Eye Lichen (Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides)Observer
jbindernagelDescription
Atop snag in small fen.
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Crab Eye Lichen (Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides)Observer
dbltuckerDescription
found and collected by paula bartemucci
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California Alsia Moss (Alsia californica)Observer
jbindernagelDescription
Epiphytic on small garry oak trunks.
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Cladonia norvegicaObserver
rambryumDescription
not sure about this one./ Baeomyces? Cladonia? On dead hemlock branches. 616
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Crab Eye Lichen (Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides)Observer
terraceparksDescription
On tip of fallen dead hemlock snag in Williams Creek Ecological Reserve
