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Favolaschia caloceraObserver
alan_rockefellerDescription
Growing on a well decayed Quercus agrifolia log.
Thanks to Evelyn Chea for showing me the location - it's the same log from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195513390
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Lobelia teneraObserver
chaunceyDescription
Location verified on satellite view.
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Azorella pulvinataObserver
chaunceyDescription
Location verified on satellite view.
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Clinanthus ruberObserver
chaunceyDescription
Amaryllidoideae according to Computer Vision.
Location accuracy verified on satellite view.
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Mountain Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana)Observer
tmessickDescription
Edge of Lodgepole pine forest, along trail between Upper and Lower Virginia Creek Primitive Campgrounds, Mono County, California, elev. approx. 9370 feet (2856 m).
Same general appearance and habitat as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145151767.
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Rocky Mountains Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca)Observer
owdegroff
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Sierra Juniper (Juniperus grandis)Observer
alandqzDescription
Resin glands are visible in the third photo as a dark area in the middle of some leaves. Those glands apparently are not obvious in the other native juniper in this area, J. osteosperma.
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Utah Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma)Observer
chaunceyDescription
Leaf margins denticulate.
Single seed, smaller than I'm used to finding.
Leaf glands obscure.
Monoecious.
Location verified on satellite view.
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Smooth Whiteleaf Manzanita (Arctostaphylos viscida ssp. viscida)Observer
chaunceyDescription
Location verified on satellite view.
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Sierra Juniper (Juniperus grandis)Observer
chaunceyDescription
As far as I know, this tree is the largest of the Bob Adams Juniper Knoll grove (DBH = 261 cm, 8.5 ft. - derived from circumference = 820 cm)
I'd name this tree Bob, for Robert Adams, but it's a girl. He has been a kind and generous juniper expert.
I've dubbed this rocky prominence the Bob Adams Juniper Knoll, which has a grove of several dozen impressive junipers.
Location verified on satellite view.
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Utah Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma)Observer
chaunceyDescription
Tree on the left is J. osteosperma, tree on the right is J. scopulorum.
From each tree, a sample was checked with a 40x scope to confirm osteo = leaves with denticulate margins and scop = leaf margins entire, not denticulate.
Location verified on satellite view.
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Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)Observer
chaunceyDescription
Apparently grazed.
North side of precipitous ridge, sheltered by high cliffs of granite. Surrounded by Cercocarpus ledifolius grove
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Sierra Juniper (Juniperus grandis)Observer
damontigheDescription
The Bennet Juniper. Finally made the pilgrimage and the effort was well worth it. On the dirt road in I passed the staging area that I use to help move cattle in the summer, never knowing this giant lay just up a little higher.
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Sierra Juniper (Juniperus grandis)Observer
chaunceyDescription
27.2 m (89 ft.) tall. 1.2 m DBH (1.4m)
Totally a jaw-dropper. I hiked back up the next weekend to measure w/ my tangent height gauge. Wow.
Elevation about 6,950 ft., 2100 m.
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Scale-leaf Junipers (Section Sabina)Observer
ccorrDescription
Taken around 7000 ft
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Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi)Observer
chaunceyDescription
I've been noticing that cone and bark characteristics vary quite a bit in Jeffrey and Ponderosa pines. Most descriptions say Jeffrey cone prickles are recrurved or turned in, thus, gentle Jeffrey and prickly ponderosa; but check this out.
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Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis)Observer
chris_earleDescription
Limber pine (Pinus flexilis) cone, tree in habitat on the Aquarius Plateau.
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Bearberries and Manzanitas (Genus Arctostaphylos)Observer
chaunceyDescription
Burls 0; plant not sprouting after fire
Nascent inflorescence bracts fleshy, scoop-shaped or generally scale-like, deltate to awl-shaped, keeled or not
Inflorescence panicle, (1)3--8-branched
Leaf blade +- white, white-glaucous, gray-green, gray-glaucous
Fruit (10)12--16 mm wide, spheric or +- spheric
