January 27 2012
27 January 2012 14:46
Location/GPS: McClane Creek 47*00'02.48"N 123*00'13.46"W elev 130ft
At the bottom of the hill around the marsh and swamp.
Habitat: Marsh and swamp. The forest on the way down the trail is made up of ACMA, ALRU, TSHE mixed forest. It's open and sunny, as is the trail nearer to the water. Other plants growing are RUSP, MANE (Manohia nervosa), THPL, RURE (Ranunculus repens), RUUR (Rubus ursinus), and GASH (Gaultheria shallon)
Animal activity: Homo sapiens
Species:
on ALRU: pleurocarp weft. lanceolate leaves with acute tips and waves that are continuous over multiple leaves. Dried out a little bit. 2-2.5feet above eye level.
on ACMA: acrocarp. multiple setae, up to four, growing out of one plant. No capsules. growing on the NW side of the tree at eye level.
on ACMA: pleurocarp weft. Sprophytes present. Medium brown capsule with kakhi calyptra. Eye level. Growing with acrocarp with multiple setae.
on THPL stump: Dicranum spp. with falcate-secund leaves. Also one that looks like Plagiothecium undulatum with long straplike stems that have white tips. Leaves appressed.
On same THPL stump: dendroid, weft. It looks like it has been harvested just below eye level but new moss plants are evenly distributed through the bare patch i.e. the surrounding mats are not colonizing from the sides.
On an nearby down ACMA: pokey pleurocarp.
On downed ALRU near the parking lot: a liverwort and a feathery moss (not pinnate, like individual ostrich plumelets hanging of the branch).
Neaf the same ALRU: the same liverwort and a moss growing together.
Question: I wonder if there is a relationship between POGL (Polypodium glycyrryiza) and the mosses that grow around it. Is it just something in the relationship of the mosses and POGL with ACMA or is POGL more important to the moss growth that makes ACMA home the the most moss species of any other tree in the PNW?
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