livermoreredtail's Identifications

Weather: sunny clear skies, 73° F
Habitat: Dry, disturbed ground, found in a residential lawn.
Diagnostic features: used Plants of the Pacific Northwest (Pojar & McKinnon) key features including narrow, lance-shaped leaves, long, erect flowering stems, and cylindrical flower spikes.
Phenological phase: flowering phase with visible inflorescence and stamens.

Weather: sunny clear skies, 72° F
Habitat: Moist, shaded old-growth forest, found on the base of Douglas Fir tree.
Diagnostic features: used Plants of the Pacific Northwest (Pojar & McKinnon) key features including bipinnate branching pattern, lanceolate leaves with a distinct midrib, and formation of dense mats covering the wooden base of the tree.
Phenological phase: vegetative phase.

Weather sunny and 28c. Fronds about 1m tall with erect leaves forming a crown, about 20 fronds total, with stems all meeting at a rhizome base. Leaves are stipe dry-scaly, blades are lance shaped and once-pinnate, alternate pointed leaflets about 30 pairs per frond, sharptoothed with a small lobe at base of leaflet pointing forward. Large circular sori (sporangia) in two rows about halfway between mid vein and margin. Found on densely covered hill just off walking trail about 1km into the i5 entrance to Watershed Park (i.e. urban / temp rainforest). Found with other sword ferns, Himalayan blackberry, horsetail, under a large bigleaf maple, partly shaded area. Spores are very powdery and dry, rust colored, easily made airborne with agitation. No distinguishable smell from leaflet or spores when crushed. No visible new growth.

Short, ground cover plant that is no more than 11in tall. This plant has small, half-inch wide flowers that are pink at the edges of the flower and get more pastel the closer to the center of the flower. Each petal of the flower has 2 darker lines that trace from the center of the flower to the pink part of the petals. Stems that are closer to the ground are red and become more green the further you get from the ground. All stems are covered in small hairs, and when a stem is broken, it gives a peppery kind of aroma. The plant can be found in dappled light areas along the pathway.