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Lots of juvenile Saccharina latissima at Stanley Park right now in the mid-intertidal. Found alongside lots of the “false Kelp”, Petalonia fascia. Made a quick set of annotated photos to help distinguish these co-occurring species, and two iNat records to note both species. Later in summer, Saccharina population will be restricted to lower intertidal and Petalonia blades will be mostly gone (alternate life cycle stage, a crust, still present).

Note: last photo refers to both species as “juveniles”. Only the Saccharina are juveniles and will grow much larger. The Petalonia are already full grown and very large compared to a “typical” Petalonia in BC.

My Doug Fir brings all the frogs to the yard and they're like, it's better than yours. I hope the fallen Douglas Fir stays so it continues to provide food and shelter to a variety of organisms not just the frogs. The frog is sitting on a Rubus armeniacus but there is a Douglas Fir around and most of the frogs were chilling on it.