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Taxa I contribute IDs for... mostly plants I grew up with as a kid and planted in my teenage "garden"

Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise) Everywhere

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=47147
EXAMPLE Chamise looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74784642
Below is a comparison to illustrate how similar they may appear:

California Buckwheat looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181751694
Chamise looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181751514

Resprouting example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71780491
https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/shrub/adefas/all.html
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=11939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3G8MlSzo1A

Twigs glabrous (hairy); leaves generally linear
to oblanceolate, 5–13 mm, tips generally acute-acuminate ..... var. fasciculatum
Twigs hairy; leaves oblanceolate to club-like, 2–6.5 mm, tips generally obtuse-mucronate ..... var. obtusifolium
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148643001

Aleuroplatus coronata (Crown Whitefly)

Still working on this one...

Artemisia californica (California Sagebrush) in Monterey or San Diego Counties

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=1921 OR https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=829
EXAMPLE California Sagebrush looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117666962

Subshrub or shrub; axillary leaf clusters present
Leaves (1)2--10 cm, linear, often +- thread-like or lobes <= 3 mm wide, generally > 1 cm

Stem: slender, flexible, wand-like, glabrous to canescent. Leaf: 1--10 cm, thread-like and entire or 1--2-pinnately divided into thread-like lobes, +- hairy, light green to gray; margins curled under. Inflorescence: heads disciform, < 5 mm diam, nodding, short-peduncled along branches of leafy, +- narrow, panicle-like cluster; phyllaries widely (ob)ovate, sparsely canescent, margins wide, scarious. Pistillate Flower: 6--10. Disk Flower: 15--30. Fruit: 0.8--1.5 mm, resin-gland-dotted; pappus +- 0.

Artemisia tridentata (Big Sagebrush) in Central Oregon

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=61575
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=1249
"Big Sagebrush" is formally the ssp. https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=5796 but unless photo of seed I don't do the subspecies for A. tridentata yet. Here is my copy/paste verbiage:
Supporting that it's A. tridentata, not opposing the ssp. tridentata, I just don't know the subspecies well enough to call it without having closeups of the seeds, and at least this gets it to RG.
Excellent paper on IDing sagebrush species "Roger Rosentreter" Artemisia

CENTRAL OREGON SPECIES KEY FEATURES

Low Sagebrush: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/119234329?size=large

Scabland Sagebrush https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/199900771?size=large mostly east of Prineville

Silver Wormwood https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/282286277?size=large

California Mugwort https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/281806288?size=large

Biennial Wormwood https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/48270352?size=large

Cylindropuntia ramosissima (Pencil Cholla) in California

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=68416&place_id=14
I'm also noting whether it is one of the spineless forms [spines: no] and if flowering
Verbiage:
Multiple spines per areole and raised tubercles >1mm
The spines of C. ramosissima also tend to be at right angles to the joint, not pointed down as these are. See https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+0209+1059
and https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80399

Ericameria ericoidesCalifornia Goldenbush (there are two with this name)

See MyType for this plant
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=60955

Frangula (Mostly Coffeeberry) in Monterey & San Diego Counties

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=829&place_id=1921&taxon_id=53424
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=8837
VERBIAGE: I am supporting that this is Frangula califorica, not disagreeing with the subspecies, but I think they will be meaningless soon
See blue note: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=26041
I only confidently ID plants in Monterey and San Diego counties. Generally I only ID to species in these two counties, and not subspecies, because this complex is not well-defined (See note above). I will designate ssp. ursina however, because it is so different.

ssp. californica NW, CW, SW, DMtns (Providence Mtns) Leaf: dark green adaxially, bright green or yellow below. 2-stoned. Twigs red and glabrous.

ssp. tomentella Twigs gray, tomentose. Leaf: dull green, (white-tomentose or) adaxially glabrous, abaxially velvety or silvery, long hairs 0, tip acute. s KR, NCoR, CaRF, SNF, n SNH, ScV, SnFrB, SCoR, SW

ssp. ursina SnBr, DMtns (Clark, New York, Providence mtns) this is the weird Arizona/Baja one... first check it on iNat to refresh, used to be its own species.

Leaves semi-deciduous or evergreen, blades ± leathery or thin

Leaves semi-deciduous, fruit 2–3-stoned

__9. Leaf blade thin, 20–60 mm, elliptic; fruit 2-stoned ..... F. californica subsp. cuspidata
__9' Leaf blade ± leathery, 50–100 mm, widely oblong or ovate to obovate; fruit 3-stoned ..... F. purshiana subsp. ultramafica

8' Leaves generally evergreen; fruit generally 2-stoned ..... F. californica

___10. Leaf blade ± glabrous or abaxially ± puberulent

___11. Leaf blade dark green adaxially, bright green or yellow abaxially; fruit 2-stoned ..... subsp. californica
___11' Leaf blade ± yellow-green; fruit 3-stoned ..... subsp. occidentalis

___10' Leaf blade adaxially glabrous to tomentose, abaxially glabrous to tomentose, velvety, or silvery

Leaf blade adaxially green, glabrous or minutely puberulent, abaxially glabrous to white-tomentose mixed with long hairs

__13. Leaf tip abruptly pointed or not, margin dentate
to dentate-serrate, long hairs conspicuous abaxially; c&s SN, Teh, TR, nw PR, SnJt, SNE, DMoj ..... subsp. cuspidata (2)
__13' Leaf tip acute to rounded, margin entire to serrate, long hairs inconspicuous abaxially; DMtns (Clark, New York, Providence mtns) ..... subsp. ursina

12' Leaf blade white-tomentose, or adaxially dull green, glabrous, abaxially white-tomentose or velvety to silvery, long hairs 0.

__14. Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, abaxially velvety to silvery ..... subsp. tomentella (2)
__14' Leaf blade widely elliptic, abaxially white-tomentose or velvety to silvery

___15. Leaf blade adaxially white-tomentose, tip obtuse; s KR, NCoRI ..... subsp. crassifolia
___15' Leaf blade adaxially glabrous (white-tomentose), tip acute; s KR, NCoR, CaRF, SNF, n SNH, ScV, SnFrB, SCoR, SW ..... subsp. tomentella (2)

Hesperomecon linearis (Narrowleaf Queen Poppy) Everywhere

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=72173
Hesperomecon (1 spp) 3 stigmas, 6 petals yellow spots alternating (or no spots) fewer stamens about 1/3 as many as
Cream Cups 6 or more stigmas, 6 petals all with yellow spots or not, but not alternating yellow spots. MANY stamens.

Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper) in Central Oregon incl. Jefferson Co.

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=68088&place_id=61575&place_id=489

Lessingia pectinata

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=56969&place_id=1921
Convenient Key: https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/3490?filter_id=55b17a31cf863
Stem: +- red to dark brown; distally glandular-puberulent or sparsely hairy. Leaf: 0.2--1.5 cm, cauline dentate to pinnately lobed, lobes very narrow, abruptly pointed.
Ecology: Sandy soil; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: s CCo. Flowering Time: May--Oct
Supposedly only two taxa in the CSUMB/Fort Ord/Marina area per Jepson and CalFlora:

Plant +- glandular: L. pectinata pectinata In the sandy areas of the Fort Ord area and environs these are all quite glandular so far.
Plant glandless or phyllaries rarely with sparse bead-like, sessile glands: Lessingia germanorum http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=3777

Expanded Path with extra details:
Corolla yellow (externally occasionally pink or +- purple in peripheral flowers of Lessingia tenuis).
Style-branch appendage short-triangular, 0.1--0.4 mm; corolla tube purple-brown banded inside
Plant +- glandular
Flowers 15--30; cauline leaves with stalked and bead-like sessile glands; phyllary tips generally green (occasionally purple); corolla of peripheral flowers yellow
Stem +- red to dark brown; leaf margin dentate to pinnately lobed, segments with short stiff points

VERBIAGE David Steyer et al., made dozens of observations in the Fort Ord area and called them all L. pectinata pectinata.
On my own observations I am calling them L. pectinata pectinata but on other observations I'm just confirming the specific name. I'm pretty sure this is another group that was only studied from limited collections in a few areas before being described.
https://www.calflora.org/entry/observ.html?track=m#srch=t&lpcli=t&taxon=Lessingia+pectinata&chk=t&cch=t&cnabh=t&inat=r&cc=MNT

Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) in Central Oregon incl. Jefferson Co.

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=60457&place_id=61575&place_id=489

Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=47850&place_id=1921&place_id=1251

Tamalia cowenii and Tamalia inquilinus in the Western US and Canada

IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=61136&place_id=65360
http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_T.htm#Tamalia

Tamalia glaucensis is the gallformer found on Arctostaphylos glauca although there may be inquilines
Tamalia moranae is the gallformer found on Arbutus arizonica although there may be inquilines present
Tamalia cruzensis is the gallformer found on Comarostaphylis diversifolia

https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/97/6/1233/54989
https://www.sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/Misc/pdf/cooc_tamalia_coweni.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369567785_Three_new_species_of_Tamalia_Hemiptera_Aphididae_Tamaliinae_associated_with_leaf_galls_on_Arbutus_Arctostaphylos_and_Comarostaphylis_in_North_America
Tamalia cruzensis Host=Summer Holly https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=2310