We found this “sleeping” or sick in center of dirt forest road in sun. We thought it was dead at first, but when I tried to turn it over with a stick, it was alive. Was it hibernating? Was it sick? A disease that eats the brain out? Just guesses. We set salal branches all around it so we wouldn’t accidentally step on it on our return walk, but when we hiked back the mouse was gone! Had it only been “playing dead” while we were there and actually is healthy? We don’t know!
sketched 08/31/2017 Dark Lake, p. 3, rose # 2 --
thorns are soft, no prick/pain whatsoever, and when touched crumble off, which is why stem has only bases of thorns ; (except one photo, last photo - with red stem - from this same group of stems, does show a stiff sharp thorn, but since not necessarily from same single 'bush' as all other photos, might even be another species stem) (except, forget all I wrote: as sketching specimen, specimen has stiff painful thorns : so I guess bush has both types of thorns);
leaves very small ;
grows south of Spearmint Log, almost to 2006 log spot, south side of odd "black hole" stump, (to help me relocate it next summer , to draw blooms)
prob Erythranthe tilingii (vs. E. guttata)
Platanthera ,
prob. P. stricta based on records in this area :
I forgot to photo it
dwarf(ed) blueberry in alpine slope meadow
Vaccinium #3 (center/lower of sketchbook page):
I negligently did not assign photos to the blueberries I sketched, and there are 3 blueberries sketched on this one page ... however, I think the following photos maybe (but maybe not) belong to the sketch of the #3 blueberry, lower center of drawing page
Vaccinium #2 (right/upper side of sketchbook page):
I negligently did not assign photos to the blueberries I sketched, and there are 3 blueberries sketched on this one page ... however, I think the following photos likely (but maybe not) belong to the sketch of the #2 blueberry, upper/righthand side of drawing page
Vaccinium #1 (left/upper side of sketchbook page):
I negligently did not assign photos to the blueberries I sketched, and there are 3 blueberries sketched on this one page ... however, I think the following photos probably (almost certainly) belong to the sketch of the #1 blueberry, upper/lefthand side of drawing page
note: I negligently didn't take photo at same time as sketch, ... but I'm pretty sure this photo is of the same paintbrush I did sketch
ID of "Oreostemma alpigenum var. alpigenum" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium;
sketchbook purple-aster #5 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon
ID of "Eucephalus ledophyllus prob. var. ledophyllus" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium; in last two photos, var. ledophyllus is on left, var. covillei is on right;
sketchbook purple-aster #3 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon
ID of "Eucephalus ledophyllus prob. var. covillei" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium ; in last two photos, var. ledophyllus is on left and var. covillei is on right;
sketchbook purple-aster #4 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon
ID of "Symphyotrichum foliaceum var.apricum" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium;
sketchbook purple-aster #2 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon
ID of "Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. parryi" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium;
sketchbook purple-aster #1 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon
apparently I didn't take a photo of the Arnica I sketched ... bummer, but I attach poor photo of some other arnica growing nearby in meadow
(paintbrush no. 4 (from left) in sketch of all paintbrushes)
paintbrush in center: (paintbrush no. 3 (from left) in sketch of all paintbrushes)
paintbrush on left in sketch: (paintbrush no. 2 (from left) in sketch of all paintbrushes)
(paintbrush no. 1 (from left) in sketch)
one of the more prominent flowers still blooming in this lake meadow
ID of "Stephanomeria lactucina" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium
ID of "Anthemis cotula" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium
small-flowered penstemon sketched at shore of South Matthieu Lake (but photos of small-flowered penstemon were taken upslope at the entrance to lake: prob same species, but should note are not exact specimens are sketched one)
Potentilla glandulosa or P. arguta
purple asters , prob 2 different growth versions both of Eucephalus ledophyllus
purple aster
I didn't get a photo of the flower I sketched ... bummer, but attached is a photo of a similar (if not the same) species in a meadow very very close to where I sketched one, same date
red heather EVERYWHERE en masse ; also some white heather, and numerous crimson paintbrushes
a white "daisy" ... couldn't find it in any of my books
scrambled egg slime, or dog vomit slime ?
all gentian records at Jefferson Park are C. calycosa, (though I should check closer next time, because G. newberryi grows in mountains to south, and others on slopes to west)
I sent this drawing to Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium, who ID'd it (using pnwherbaria) as Cardamine bellidifolia var. pachyphylla