Botany walk at Roy Morrison Nature Park

From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on February 19. Click a photo to enlarge it.

We had a good walk around Roy Morrison Nature Park on February 13, seeing many wonderful things. We focused mainly on winter fungi, but we took a look at a few mosses and other things. We even saw a wooly bear caterpillar!

We saw most of the fungi from my last posts “Winter fungi review, part 1” and “Winter fungi (and a slime mould), part 2” so I won’t repeat those here.

Here are a few highlights. Thanks to VĂ©ronique and Shirley for submitting photos.

  1. Botanists on a bridge!
  1. Western wild ginger (Asarum caudatum). The evergreen heart-shaped leaves are distinctive.
  1. Siberian miner’s lettuce (Claytonia sibirica). Lots of leaves showing in crevices at the base of trees.
  1. A lovely vase-shaped Clitocybe of some sort, growing on a decaying fallen tree (a cottonwood, we think).
  1. Orange jelly (Dacrymyces chrysospermus). Common on conifers.
  1. Artist conk (Ganoderma applanatum).
  1. Small staghorn (Calocera cornea).
  1. Plume moss (Dendroalsia abietina).
  1. Hanging moss (Antitrichia curtipendula).
  1. Magnificent moss (Plagiomnium venustum). On bigleaf maple trunks; multiple sporophytes.
  1. Banded wooly bear – larval form of Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia isabella).
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