Removing mullein from Caldor fire scar , and planting locally collected lupine and yellow star tulip seeds in there place. Also flipping off the invasive plant before removing it adds nitrogen to the soil.
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Coburg Ridge; growing on basalt bedrock at the crest of the ridge. Dozens of plants growing throughout this area. Only one individual seen flowering.
Previous records from this site:
https://oregonflora.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=4251862&clid=0
https://oregonflora.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=4251513&clid=0
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Larvae on Castilleja levisecta (golden paintbrush).
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@brucen, @eralverson, here's that P. linearis I mentioned!
Growing on a dry south-facing slope at the base of a Quercus garryana tree. A dozen or more plants growing here in rocky soil. This site is threatened by quarry operations.
Growing on a dry south-facing slope. Fairly common in this area.
Growing on a dry south-facing slope.
Growing on a dry south-facing slope.
Abundant throughout the summit meadows of North Butte.
In Lemmon's needlegrass herbaceous bald community. Bedrock is mapped as Early Western Cascade Volcanics.
100% flowering
Lane County OR, the farthest north known site of this species by about 70 miles. Collected in 1934, again in 1969 and 1982. Population previously presumed extinct, currently appears to be stable. This population had not been recorded in 41 years. Growing in rocky, south facing open habitat near Jasper, Oregon. @eralverson @brucen @jamesgrasstoucher @frondsinhighplaces @tanyaharvey
on Asclepias speciosa at FBP native plant nursery
Pale Swallowtail ovipositing on domestic peach. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84788703
This is an isolated Oregon white oak stand along Hwy 126 within the area burned by the Holiday Farm Fire, photo taken prior to the wildfire.
This particular tree managed to survive the Holiday Farm Fire without much damage. For an observation from this site prior to the wildfire see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67707836
On the rocky, south-facing side of Spencer Butte summit.
HBRA, Buckbrush MU.
HBRA, Southern Uplands SZ
Porose anthers of the lewd and depraved. Never was anticipating nectar-robbing bees
Adelinia grandis
Gravelly soil adjacent to the Willamette River.
Driloleirus earthworms This is a not-yet described species of Driloleirus earthworm. It has no official name yet.
Unusual to find this species on the Willamette Valley floor.
Growing in the Festuca roemeri var roemaeri garden bed
Castilleja sp, host plant Eriophyllum lanatum and possible adjacent grasses.
This photo shows a Quercus garryana savanna-woodland with Ceanothus cuneatus in the understory. This site is the best example of this Quercus-Ceanothus community in the Willamette Valley.
Oregon white krumholz on the exposed shoreline of Samish Island.
'Mostly Bombus vosnesenskii including a couple of queens and B. mixtus. Next most populous genus was Eucera (all males). There were B. nevadensis queens on river lupine 100' away how but none visitd the Phacelia.
This site is on the beetle bank
Photos show a mature Quercus kelloggii tree, prior to (10/26/2006) and just after (10/30/2006) release by removal of overtopping Douglas-firs
There is no reason to think that this is not a natural population, and there are a few other records of Washington lily from the Willamette Valley.
It is a lucky homeowner who has a great old California black oak like this in their front yard!
Clematis ligusticifolia is a dioecious species, this is a staminate plant. The similar-looking invasive non-native Clematis vitalba is perfect-flowered.
This is a view of what happens when Lilium washingtonianum meets industrial forestry.
This is one of several documented sites for Canyon live oak at the very northern limit of its range, in the upper portion of the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed SE of Cottage Grove, Lane County.