On limestone @astorey_botany check out this Pseudosyntrichia from today. I think it is mnium but i was really thrown off
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.
Dicyrtoma hageni, forma canadensis, Janssens & Chan 2024
reference: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2325005
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
Check ID. A. tenellus or A. miser? Private land, accessed with permission. Locations obscured for now on land-owner request.
Check ID. Private land. Accessed with permission from land-owner, with locations obscured.
Upper Bouma falls. Several present.
1795.1 on leaves of plagiochila cristata UID 29
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.
Robiquetia wassellii but won’t let me placehold
In trembling aspen-slough sedge forested wetland, occurring in deepest portions of the wetland
on wet mineral soil along creek margin in subalpine
Stem leaves broad, blunt-tipped; some with slightly notched apex
Stem leaves broad, rounded, with fimbriate tips. Stems blackish and brittle.
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.
moist forest on bigleaf maple trunk
Check ID with O. sericea? Private land, accessed with permission. Locations obscured for now on land-owner request.
In 1985, this was known as Isopyrum savelei.
Found fallen on Big Hump on the Duckabush trail, on the 9th switchback. Under Pseudotsuga and Acer. Altitude 300m.
This location has been obscured twice.
Spruce bog.
1539 on dry peaty soil with sphag. capill
or possibly russowii but this is very five ranked 1536
not sure on this ID in low lying muddy pool. 1538
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
Epiphytic on small garry oak trunks.
not sure about this one./ Baeomyces? Cladonia? On dead hemlock branches. 616
On tip of fallen dead hemlock snag in Williams Creek Ecological Reserve
sensu McCune & Geiser guide windfall
50-100 plants seen between localities marked by the two observations I have uploaded for this date
50-100 plants seen between localities marked by the two observations I have uploaded for this date
On soil under cliffy overhang in the Doug-fir forest
This area was accessed with permission from the landowner, and is not open to the public.
Exobasidium on Cassiope tetragona (White Heather)
This location is not open to the public and was accessed with permission from the land-owner.
Cottonwood trunk.
35mm talll
Siliciles 4 x 4mm
Leaves 4mm only basal
Flowers yellow, drying white
Well known population on east side of river near Yale. Previously reported tree on west side of river, visible right next to Hwy 1 at top of road cut. For bonus points, you can also see it reasonably well in the current Google Streetview imagery from Oct/18.
Growing near Cassiope tetragona and Vaccinium uliginosum
It has been a very dry summer, with a lot of fog.
At the time of the photo, I didn't know to look for an associating, infected plant or to see if it is growing on its own. Next summer...:)
The White heather has red growth, possibly Exobasidium?
Mt. Becher trail, 1350m.