Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise) Everywhere
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=47147
EXAMPLE Chamise looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74784642
Below is a comparison to illustrate how similar they may appear:
Resprouting example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71780491
https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/shrub/adefas/all.html
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=11939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3G8MlSzo1A
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Twigs glabrous (hairy); leaves generally linear
to oblanceolate, 5–13 mm, tips generally acute-acuminate ..... var. fasciculatum
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Twigs hairy; leaves oblanceolate to club-like, 2–6.5 mm, tips generally obtuse-mucronate ..... var. obtusifolium
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148643001
Aleuroplatus coronata (Crown Whitefly)
Still working on this one...
Artemisia californica (California Sagebrush) in Monterey or San Diego Counties
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=1921 OR https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=829
EXAMPLE California Sagebrush looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117666962
Subshrub or shrub; axillary leaf clusters present
Leaves (1)2--10 cm, linear, often +- thread-like or lobes <= 3 mm wide, generally > 1 cm
Stem: slender, flexible, wand-like, glabrous to canescent. Leaf: 1--10 cm, thread-like and entire or 1--2-pinnately divided into thread-like lobes, +- hairy, light green to gray; margins curled under. Inflorescence: heads disciform, < 5 mm diam, nodding, short-peduncled along branches of leafy, +- narrow, panicle-like cluster; phyllaries widely (ob)ovate, sparsely canescent, margins wide, scarious. Pistillate Flower: 6--10. Disk Flower: 15--30. Fruit: 0.8--1.5 mm, resin-gland-dotted; pappus +- 0.
Artemisia tridentata (Big Sagebrush) in Central Oregon
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=52855&place_id=61575
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=1249
"Big Sagebrush" is formally the ssp. https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=5796 but unless photo of seed I don't do the subspecies for A. tridentata yet. Here is my copy/paste verbiage:
Supporting that it's A. tridentata, not opposing the ssp. tridentata, I just don't know the subspecies well enough to call it without having closeups of the seeds, and at least this gets it to RG.
Excellent paper on IDing sagebrush species "Roger Rosentreter" Artemisia
CENTRAL OREGON SPECIES KEY FEATURES
Low Sagebrush: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/119234329?size=large
Scabland Sagebrush https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/199900771?size=large mostly east of Prineville
Silver Wormwood https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/282286277?size=large
California Mugwort https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/281806288?size=large
Biennial Wormwood https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/48270352?size=large
Atriplex hymenelytra (Desert Holly) Everywhere
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=75706
https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=984
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=15222
EXAMPLE Female Desert Holly looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148225982
EXAMPLE Male Desert Holly looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148296528
Cneoridium dumosum (Bushrue) Everywhere
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=72059
Contarinia Clasping Leaf Gall on Creosote in the Southwestern US
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=174304&place_id=62332&q=creosote OR https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=174304&place_id=62332&q=larrea DON'T FORGET TO ADD
Undescribed midge in genus Contarinia per Russo 3rd Ed.
Gallformers Code: l-tridentata-clasping-leaf-gall
https://gallformers.org/gall/2205
Cylindropuntia ramosissima (Pencil Cholla) in California
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=68416&place_id=14
I'm also noting whether it is one of the spineless forms [spines: no] and if flowering
Verbiage:
Multiple spines per areole and raised tubercles >1mm
The spines of C. ramosissima also tend to be at right angles to the joint, not pointed down as these are. See https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+0209+1059
and https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80399
Ericameria ericoidesCalifornia Goldenbush (there are two with this name)
See MyType for this plant
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=60955
Frangula (Mostly Coffeeberry) in Monterey County
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=1921&taxon_id=53424
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=8837
VERBIAGE: I am supporting that this is Frangula califorica, not disagreeing with the subspecies, but I think they will be meaningless soon
See blue note: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=26041
I only confidently ID plants in Monterey and San Diego counties. Generally I only ID to species in these two counties, and not subspecies, because this complex is not well-defined (See note above). I will designate ssp. ursina however, because it is so different.
ssp. californica NW, CW, SW, DMtns (Providence Mtns) Leaf: dark green adaxially, bright green or yellow below. 2-stoned. Twigs red and glabrous.
ssp. tomentella Twigs gray, tomentose. Leaf: dull green, (white-tomentose or) adaxially glabrous, abaxially velvety or silvery, long hairs 0, tip acute. s KR, NCoR, CaRF, SNF, n SNH, ScV, SnFrB, SCoR, SW
ssp. ursina SnBr, DMtns (Clark, New York, Providence mtns) this is the weird Arizona/Baja one... first check it on iNat to refresh, used to be its own species.
Leaves semi-deciduous or evergreen, blades ± leathery or thin
- Leaves semi-deciduous, fruit 2–3-stoned
__9. Leaf blade thin, 20–60 mm, elliptic; fruit 2-stoned ..... F. californica subsp. cuspidata
__9' Leaf blade ± leathery, 50–100 mm, widely oblong or ovate to obovate; fruit 3-stoned ..... F. purshiana subsp. ultramafica
8' Leaves generally evergreen; fruit generally 2-stoned ..... F. californica
___10. Leaf blade ± glabrous or abaxially ± puberulent
___11. Leaf blade dark green adaxially, bright green or yellow abaxially; fruit 2-stoned ..... subsp. californica
___11' Leaf blade ± yellow-green; fruit 3-stoned ..... subsp. occidentalis
___10' Leaf blade adaxially glabrous to tomentose, abaxially glabrous to tomentose, velvety, or silvery
- Leaf blade adaxially green, glabrous or minutely puberulent, abaxially glabrous to white-tomentose mixed with long hairs
__13. Leaf tip abruptly pointed or not, margin dentate
to dentate-serrate, long hairs conspicuous abaxially; c&s SN, Teh, TR, nw PR, SnJt, SNE, DMoj ..... subsp. cuspidata (2)
__13' Leaf tip acute to rounded, margin entire to serrate, long hairs inconspicuous abaxially; DMtns (Clark, New York, Providence mtns) ..... subsp. ursina
12' Leaf blade white-tomentose, or adaxially dull green, glabrous, abaxially white-tomentose or velvety to silvery, long hairs 0.
__14. Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, abaxially velvety to silvery ..... subsp. tomentella (2)
__14' Leaf blade widely elliptic, abaxially white-tomentose or velvety to silvery
___15. Leaf blade adaxially white-tomentose, tip obtuse; s KR, NCoRI ..... subsp. crassifolia
___15' Leaf blade adaxially glabrous (white-tomentose), tip acute; s KR, NCoR, CaRF, SNF, n SNH, ScV, SnFrB, SCoR, SW ..... subsp. tomentella (2)
Hesperomecon linearis (Narrowleaf Queen Poppy) Everywhere
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=72173
Hesperomecon (1 spp) 3 stigmas, 6 petals yellow spots alternating (or no spots) fewer stamens about 1/3 as many as
Cream Cups 6 or more stigmas, 6 petals all with yellow spots or not, but not alternating yellow spots. MANY stamens.
Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper) in Central Oregon incl. Jefferson Co.
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=68088&place_id=61575&place_id=489
Lessingia pectinata
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=56969&place_id=1921
Convenient Key: https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/3490?filter_id=55b17a31cf863
Stem: +- red to dark brown; distally glandular-puberulent or sparsely hairy. Leaf: 0.2--1.5 cm, cauline dentate to pinnately lobed, lobes very narrow, abruptly pointed.
Ecology: Sandy soil; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: s CCo. Flowering Time: May--Oct
Supposedly only two taxa in the CSUMB/Fort Ord/Marina area per Jepson and CalFlora:
- Plant +- glandular: L. pectinata pectinata In the sandy areas of the Fort Ord area and environs these are all quite glandular so far.
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Plant glandless or phyllaries rarely with sparse bead-like, sessile glands: Lessingia germanorum http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=3777
Expanded Path with extra details:
- Corolla yellow (externally occasionally pink or +- purple in peripheral flowers of Lessingia tenuis).
- Style-branch appendage short-triangular, 0.1--0.4 mm; corolla tube purple-brown banded inside
- Plant +- glandular
- Flowers 15--30; cauline leaves with stalked and bead-like sessile glands; phyllary tips generally green (occasionally purple); corolla of peripheral flowers yellow
- Stem +- red to dark brown; leaf margin dentate to pinnately lobed, segments with short stiff points
VERBIAGE David Steyer et al., made dozens of observations in the Fort Ord area and called them all L. pectinata pectinata.
On my own observations I am calling them L. pectinata pectinata but on other observations I'm just confirming the specific name. I'm pretty sure this is another group that was only studied from limited collections in a few areas before being described.
https://www.calflora.org/entry/observ.html?track=m#srch=t&lpcli=t&taxon=Lessingia+pectinata&chk=t&cch=t&cnabh=t&inat=r&cc=MNT
Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) in Central Oregon incl. Jefferson Co.
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=60457&place_id=10
Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=47850&place_id=1921&place_id=1251
Tamalia cowenii and Tamalia inquilinus in the Western US and Canada
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=61136&place_id=65360
http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_T.htm#Tamalia
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Tamalia glaucensis is the gallformer found on Arctostaphylos glauca although there may be inquilines
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Tamalia moranae is the gallformer found on Arbutus arizonica although there may be inquilines present
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Tamalia cruzensis is the gallformer found on Comarostaphylis diversifolia
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/97/6/1233/54989
https://www.sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/Misc/pdf/cooc_tamalia_coweni.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369567785_Three_new_species_of_Tamalia_Hemiptera_Aphididae_Tamaliinae_associated_with_leaf_galls_on_Arbutus_Arctostaphylos_and_Comarostaphylis_in_North_America
Tamalia cruzensis Host=Summer Holly https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=2310
Thamnosma montana (Turpentine Broom) Everywhere
IDENTIFY https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=68403
The Pre-Maverick Project (California Trachaeophyta)
IDENTIFY
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=hkibak&place_id=any&subview=grid&taxon_id=49370&view=species
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=hkibak