1 March 2012

Glacier Heritage Prairie. Thurston County, Washington. 1100 hours. 7 degrees celcius. It snowed last night but has been raining for weeks. The ground is wet and covered in snow. We are here to look for epimerals in the prairie. We recently learned about earlt colonizers and since this prairie is a known disturbed area with fires, we feel confident we might find some rare Bryophytes. I collected a moss from an Oak tree. It was fan moss, green, and feathery. I collected a Polytrichum from the side of the prairie raod. It has clear-white awns with a short, red seta and orange calyptra. I collected a liverwort from the middle of a moss mat off of an oak tree. It was dark green and leafy. Very small and I do not think I have seen this liverwort before.

Publicado el marzo 13, 2012 05:57 TARDE por dkennedy