7 February 2012

13:00 hours at The Evergreen State College. The weather was clear and sunny at about 10 degrees celcius. It has been sunny for a few days so the moss rooftop garden was dry and basking in the sunlight when I was collecting. The garden is on the 4th floor of the Seminar 11 Building above the E wing. I was collecting for the purpose of identifying species in order to understand what already grows in the garden and what species we might want to add to the garden as part of our group research project. I collected a moss that was growing in the granite rockery as well on the cement. It was a short acrocarp growing in a mat. The leaves were spirally arranged and too tiny to tell if a costa was present. I colleced a moss clump that looked like a green grass clump. The leaves were small and pressed tightly to the stems. I was given a moss while I was collecting that came from another location. The location was described as Lake Cushman in the dried out lake bed. It was growing in a mat but very tightly connected. It had branches with light yellow-green leaves. I collected a pluerocarp type moss from the cement on the roof. It was very small with tighly compressed lanceolate shaped leaves. I collected a Polytrichem species from parking lot B in front of the Lab 1 building on my way back from the roof garden. I also collected an Isothecium species hanging from a Doug Fir branch in the same parking lot.

Posted on February 22, 2012 07:30 AM by dkennedy