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herbarium group checks out the tree of life drawing
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Buteo jamaicensis, RED-TAILED HAWK
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Omphalotus olivascens, JACK-O-LANTERN MUSHROOM?
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Stereum hirsutum, FALSE TURKEY TAIL?
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Trametes versicolor, TURKEY TAIL underside
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Mold on a mushroom!
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heading to the Douglas Iris site on trail 20
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*Amaryllis belladonna, NAKED LADIES with dried stalks
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*Amaryllis belladonna, NAKED LADIES seed pods
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Herbarium group at Douglas iris site.
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Steep bank of San Francisquito Creek below the Douglas iris site.
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Porella platyphylla, a liverwort that looks a bit like a moss.
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Porella platyphylla, a liverwort that looks a bit like a moss.
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Clinopodium douglasii (Satureja d.), YERBA BUENA.
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Herbarium group examining moss on trunk of oak.
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Moss on the oak in previous photo.
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Herbarium group on hill above trail 20.
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Soap plant leaves have poked through a dead leaf which still holds them together
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Unidentified mushrooms
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Delphinium patens ssp. patens, SPREADING OR ZIGZAG LARKSPUR
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*Geranium robertianum, HERB ROBERT seedlings
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Tremella mesenterica, WITCH'S BUTTER.
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Hygrophorus eburneus, COWBOY'S HANDKERCHIEF
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Fence is broken here on the border of the Shack Rider facility
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Herbarium group approaching red hot poker site
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Toxicodendron diversilobum, WESTERN POISON OAK.
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Large valley oak thickly hung with Ramalina menziesii
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*Kniphofia uvaria, RED-HOT POKER
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Homalothecium sp. growing on oak bark
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native grasses (probably a mix of Danthonia and Stipa) dominate the road while few natives survive in the adjoining meadow