Thursday, September 11, 2014

McCarthy Field Trip, Day 3


September 7, 2014 9:10 am Little woody hiking trail

weather: light clouds, little-no wind
geo: post-bog, muske

non-vegetative life: red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris, gray jay Perisoreus canadensis, chickadee sp., moose evidence, beetle and woodpecker evidence

plants & fungi:
freckled pelt lichen Peltigera brittannica
alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina
black spruce Picea mariana
white spruce Picea glauca
northern red currant Ribes triste
feather moss Kindbergia oregana
puffball Lycoperdon perlatum
spiny puffball Lycoperdon echinatum
labrador tea Ledum palustris ssp groenlandicum
common horsetail Equisetum arvense
high-bush cranberry Viburnum edule
frog pelt lichen Peltigera neopolydactyla
prickly rose Rosa acicularis
lycopodium sp.
common fireweed Epilobium angustifolium
green wintergreen Pyrola chlorantha
paper birch Betula papyrifera
balsam poplar Populus balsamifera
cow's parsnip Anthriscus sylvestris
slime mold sp.
grass sp.
red alder Alnus rubra
raspberry Rubus idaeus
willow Salix sp.
green mushroom


Works Cited:
Google. (n.d.). Google. Retrieved September 9, 2014, from http://www.google.com/
Pojar, J., MacKinnon, A., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Redmond, Wash.: Lone Pine Pub..

Pratt, V. E. (1989). Field guide to Alaskan wildflowers. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskakrafts Pub.. 

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