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Trailing Blackberry (Rubus ursinus)Observer
alyssaballDescription
Trailing to 5m or more. Curved, unflattened prickles that are smaller than non-native blackberries. White or pink flowers large (to 4cm across). Alternate, deciduous with three toothed leaflets.
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Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)Observer
alyssaballDescription
Leafy stems, 0.5-1.8m tall. Leaves egg-lance-shaped, green and soft hairy above, grey-wooly below. Flowers tube or tuba like, pink-purple with deeper purple spots inside.
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Armenian Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)Observer
alyssaballDescription
Rounded, toothed (not deeply incised) oval leaves, more or less evergreen, trifoliate. Leaves of evergreen blackberry are more deeply incised and jagged and greenish on the undersurface. Stout purplish prickles along the stem.
Also known as Himalayan blackberry (Pojar and MacKinnon)
Specimen found forming a dense thicket near gravel road, covered in coating of dust.
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White Clover (Trifolium repens)Observer
alyssaballDescription
Flowerheads on long stocks, leaves are 3 leafed (rarely 4) and not directly below the flowers so not Red clover. Flowers not as pink as Aslike clover.
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Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata)Observer
alyssaballDescription
Branches that spread or droop and then turn upward in J-shaped bows. Reddish-brown bark, tearing off in long fibrous strips unlike Yellow cedar which does not tear off in very long strips. Leaves have two opposite rows of folded leaves and 2 unfolded rather than than four rows that are all the same like Chamaecyparis nootkantensis (Yellow-cedar). Outside the range of Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) which is found only in the Oregon Cascades.
