What We Saw on The Muir Woods Walk (August 19)

Here's what Wendy lists as the plants and spiders noted during our hike up the Dipsea and down the Ben Johnson trails at Muir Woods on August 19th:

TREES

Bay with nuts, buckeye with small buckeyes, hazel, redwood, Douglas fir

FERNS

Sword, bracken, wood, lady, chain

GALLS

Coyote brush bud gall midge, Baccharis stem gall moth (Baccharis is the genus of coyote bush)

OTHER PLANTS

Elk clover (getting berries, not edible for people), thimbleberry (no berries), huckleberry, elderberry, redwood sorrel (drooping when in the sun), ocean spray (blossoms dried up), bearberry (aka native blackberry, no berries), CA manroot.. Leaves of: Clinonia, Pacific star flower, fairy bells, trillium.

FLOWERS

Sticky monkeyflower, tarweed, Clematis (at entrance)

SPIDER

Araneus (orb weaver that stays in retreat at attachment point of web), labyrinth spider (orb and tangle), spider in retreat in center of tangle.

FUNGI

FIRST OYSTER MUSHROOMS!

LICHEN

Usnea arizonica (old man’s beard with apothecea like a child’s drawing of the sun), Parmotrema (with black “eyelashes” on the margins)

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