SHOUP BAY TRAIL 10/23/2014

WEATHER  temps in low 50s, little/no wind, clear blue skies

PLANTS

Thicket

·               Black Cottonwood (Populus balsamifera)

·               Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus)

·               Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)

·               Large Leaf Avens (Geum macropyllum)

·               Sitka Alder (Alnus crispa)

·               Salmon Berry (Rubus spectabilis)

·               Cow Parsnip (Heracleum lanatum)

·               Spiny Wood Fern (Dryopteris expansa)

·               Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina)

·               Yellow Moss (Homalothecium fulgescens)

·               Pixie Cup Lichen (Cladonia asahinae)

·               High Bush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)

·               Barclays Willow (Salix barclayi)

·               Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)

·               Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

·               Dwarf Fireweed (Epilobium latifolium)

Meadow:

·               Chocolate Lilly (Fritillaria camschatcensis)

·               Yarrow (Archillea millefolium)

·               Spread-Leaved Peat Moss (Sphagnum squarrosum)

·               Fireweed

·               Arctic Dock

·               Cow Parsnip

Beach:

·               Rockweed (Fucus distichus)

·               Sea Lettuce (Ulva lactuca)

·               Dune Grass (Leymus mollis)

·               Sea Staghorn (Codium fragile)

·               False Hellebore (Veratrum viride)

ANIMALS

·               Moon Jelly (Aurelia labiata)

·               Sea Lion (Eumetopia jubatus)

·               Darkeyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

·               Pacific Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis)