judahchristian's Identifications

Weather: clear 70F
Habitat: grassy roadside near conifer forest
Overstory: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Alnus rubra
Diagnostic features: terminal panicle inflorescence, yellow flowers with 10+ rays, upper stems pubescent, leaves linear lanceolate and serrate.
Phenology:  flowering

Image Descriptors:
1)."corolla blue or light violet, rotate; stamens 5, the anthers conspicuous, yellow;" (Burke Herbarium)
2). "Inflorescence 10 flowered, branched, jointed, bractless, attached along the stem; the 5 pointed corolla lobes 5-9 mm.(in this photo 6 mm) long," (Burke Herbarium)
3). Leaf Arrangment: Alternate
4). "Leaves petiolate, blade 2.5-8 cm. long (in picture 4 cm) with a pair of smaller basal lobes or leaflets." (Burke Herbarium)
Location: Goldsborough Fish Ladder Trail, Shelton WA
Weather: Clear, bright, 85 degrees
Habitat: edge of mixed conifer forest and goldsborough creek.
Relationships: Rubus ursinus
Diagnostic features written in photos above: Plant keyed with Burke Herbarium

I found this madrone along a walking path by an open field. This tree was growing nest to Douglas-fir and oak.

It was a sunny day and hot, in the upper 80's.

Madrone trees have distinctive bark. The young bark is a light brownish green color and smooth plus it is cool to the touch while the older bark is reddish brown and peals off.

It's leaves are oval and evergreen.

Image Descriptors:
1). Whole Plant - 5 feet tall
2). Leaves alternate
3). "Infl gen 3-5 x as long as wide"(Hitchcock)
4) "fls pale to dark pink" (Hitchcock)
5) Flowers dying
6). Shiny green leaves that are oval and toothed toward the tip
Location:Oakland Bay Historical Park Conservation Easement
Weather: 75 degrees - Sunny
Habitat: Side of dirt path in mixed Conifer Forest.
Relationships:
Diagnostic features: Rubus spectabilis, Rubus parviflorus,
Features explained on photo identification above Keyed using Flora of the Pacific Northwest

Image Descriptors:
1) "Berry bright red" (Hitchcock)
2)."Plants not broom like, with spreading branches" (Hitchcock)
3). "Twigs green" (Hitchcock)
4) "Erect shrub 1-4 m." (Burke Herbarium)
5)"Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 6-9 mm. broad." (Burke Herbarium)
Location:Oakland Bay Historical Park Conservation Easement
Weather: 75 degrees - Sunny
Habitat: Side of dirt Road in mixed Conifer Forest.
Relationships: Thuja plicata, Rubus ursinus
Diagnostic features: Are in the image descriptions above, keyed with Flora of the Pacific Northwest, and Burke Herbarium -

Weather: mild, sunny
Habitat: mixed conifer undergrowth, trail edge
Diagnostic features: large thick slightly wrinkly leathery serrated leaves 13 cm long and 10 cm across, new growth reddish hairy stems, stems with unripe fruit sticky, 0.5 m tall

Image Descriptors:
1). Digitate Blades
2). Fan shaped blades
3). Petiole slender, wiry, dark and polished.
4) Larger Plant + Habitat
Location: Harstine Island State Park
Weather: 80 degrees - Sunny
Habitat: Path in mixed Conifer Forest, growing above high tide area.
Relationships: Vaccinium ovatum, Rubus spectabilis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Acer spps.
Diagnostic features: Keyed with Flora of the Pacific Northwest.

Weather- hot and sunny
Habitat- disturbed roadway
Diagnostic features-
pink to purple flowers on spike
4 merous
Alternate and cauline lvs
Found in a disturbed area

Phenological phase- flowering.

68deg F
88% cloud cover
North winds at 3mph
Habitat- state park area, this salal was near a lake on the edge of a Doug Fir forest
Diagnostic features- leaves dense leathery and tough, shiny and dark green, and urn shaped pink to white flowers

Date-7/14/21
Location-Shelton Wa
Weather-Coudy and warm
Habitat-herb
Diagnostic features-
Starting at Laminacea in Hitchcock
1b. upper lip of corolla present
4b lacks transverse protuberance
5b calyx not hooked
7b ca;yx teeth + or – equal
Group 3
21b flowers subtended by leaves
29b upper lip of corolla 3 lobed
31b stamens not exserted
32b lower petals not toothed
33b Calyx lobes smaller than tubes
35b corolla purple
37b flowers ebracteate
Stachys p.487
1b Rhizomatous
2a Corolla tube 20 mm
S. cooleyae
Phenological phase-Flowering