sorrelheron's Identifications

Found in local garden within an urban environment.
ID’d because of big flowers with 5-7 white petals and thick glossy leaves.
Family: Rosaceae
Weather:
67 degrees F
No precipitation
4mph wind
Partly cloudy

Weather: 68°F, Sunny, humidity 44%
Habitat: Coniferous forest, clear cut area
Phenological Phase: has not started budding or flowering yet.
Diagnostic Feature: trifoliate-three leaflet, serrated edges. Low growing, small hooked thorns on stem.

Diagnostic: Shurb with fine branch structure. Opposite, deciduous leaves with wavy-toothed margins. Pink bell-shaped flowers flowers - primarily terminal.

Elevation: 170ft AMSL

Weather: Mostly sunny. 67 degrees fahrenheit.

Ecology: Urban setting.

Association: Fringe cup, trillium.

Weather: Cloudy
Temp: 63°F
Location: Evergreen State College. Found near A Dorm, closer to the bus stop.
Observation: White flowers, five petals each and shrub like with distinct large leaves. No observed fruit.

April 8, 2020
56-60 degrees.
Titlow Park, Tacoma, Wa
I found this plant on a trail in an simi-open area part of the park.
I noticed that the plant had red flowers and rib green leaves.
Ribes sanguineum, the flowering currant, redflower currant, or red-flowering currant, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, native to western United States and Canada (British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California),but widely cultivated and naturalized throughout temperate Europe and Australasia.
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall and broad.

The bark is dark brownish-grey with prominent paler brown lenticels.

The leaves are 2–7 cm (1–3 in) long and broad, palmately lobed with five lobes; when young in spring, they have a strong resinous scent.

The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on dangling racemes 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long of 5–30 flowers; each flower is 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) in diameter, with five red or pink petals.

The fruit is a dark purple oval berry about 1 cm (0.5 in) long, edible but with an insipid taste.

The Latin specific epithet sanguineum means “blood-red

Found these on the 5th of may whilst going through a bit of a nature walk by my apartment complex.

There was a lot of green, though it’s mostly an urban environment.

The best identifier of the plant was its bright, yellow flowers, though I’m not knowledgeable enough to go into specifics.

May 11, 2020
50 degrees overcast light rain
Deception Pass State Park, Oak Harbor, Wa

Urtica dioica, often known as common nettle, stinging nettle or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. Originally native to Europe, much of temperate Asia and western North Africa, it is now found worldwide, including New Zealand and North America.

Urtica dioica is a dioecious, herbaceous, perennial plant, 1 to 2 m (3 to 7 ft) tall in the summer and dying down to the ground in winter.[3] It has widely spreading rhizomes and stolons, which are bright yellow, as are the roots. The soft, green leaves are 3 to 15 cm (1 to 6 in) long and are borne oppositely on an erect, wiry, green stem. The leaves have a strongly serrated margin, a cordate base, and an acuminate tip with a terminal leaf tooth longer than adjacent laterals. It bears small, greenish or brownish, numerous flowers in dense axillary inflorescences. The leaves and stems are very hairy with non-stinging hairs, and in most subspecies, also bear many stinging hairs (trichomes or spicules), whose tips come off when touched, transforming the hair into a needle that can inject several chemicals causing a painful sting or paresthesia, giving the species its common names: stinging nettle, burn nettle, burn weed, or burn hazel.

The stinging trichomes of the leaves and stems have bulbous tips that break off when brushed against, revealing needlelike tubes that pierce the skin. They inject a mix of acetylcholine, formic acid, histamine, and serotonin, causing an itchy, burning rash in humans and other animals that may last up to 12 hours. Hunting dogs running through stinging nettle thickets have been poisoned. This defense mechanism is an effective deterrent against most large herbivores, though the plant is important food for several butterfly species and aphids. The dried plant can be used as livestock feed, and heating or cooking the fresh leaves renders them safe for consumption.

Rubus ursinus- Trailing Blackberry

Weather during observation- Partly sunny, 62°f, winds out of the S, SW @ 7mph

Habitat- Forest section of primarily Douglas Fir as the dominant overstory species- a relatively sunny area with a lot of understory Salmonberry

Diagnostic features-  is a wide, mounding shrub or vine, growing to 2–5 feet high, and more than 6 feet wide. The prickly branches can take root if they touch soil, thus enabling the plant to spread vegetatively and form larger clonal colonies.

Leaves usually have 3 leaflets but sometimes 5 or only 1, and are deciduous. The plant is dioeocious, with male and female plants on separate plants, also unusual for the genus. As with other Rubus, the canes are typically vegetative the first year, and reproductive in the second.

Flowers are white with narrower petals than most related species, and have a fragrance. The sweet, very aromatic, edible fruits are dark purple, dark red, or black and up to 2 centimeters in length.

Found in an area with a mix of broad leaf trees and conifers. The fern has a single frond growing in a whirl. The back of the fronds are dotted with sporangia.

Weather:
Temp - 83°
Cloud cover- Cloudy
Humidity- 39%
Wind- 5mph

5/10/2020 8:45pm
Partly cloudy, 74°F, wind 2mph
Built environment, disturbed slope with many brambles

Tree growth habit, about 30ft tall
Whorled, needle like leaves, older leaves dark green, new growth pale green and softer to touch.
Three-pointed bracts between each scale of the cone.