Curvepod or Western Yellow Cress (Rorippa curvisiliqua), Brassicaceae
Curvepod or Western Yellow Cress (Rorippa curvisiliqua), Brassicaceae
Winter Cress (Barbarea orthoceras), Brassicaceae
Winter Cress (Barbarea orthoceras), Brassicaceae
Winter Cress (Barbarea orthoceras), Brassicaceae
Winter Cress (Barbarea orthoceras), Brassicaceae
Lake elevation of 6224.29, almost five feet below high water, but still over a foot above low water (natural rim), exposing lots of disturbed shore for weeds to pioneer, both native weedy plants which are part of this healthy ecosystem, and non-native invaders which the Park botanists and knowledgeable concerned citizens properly remove.
first Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) of the season. Pulled a couple few dozen on the shore here, also a couple dozen Verbascum thapsus, a few Cirsium vulgare, a couple Lactuca serriola, a dozen Tragopogon dubious, a dozen Taraxacum officinale
This is the primary grass which grows here on the shore (presumably native? certainly preferable), amongst which the invasive Cheatgrass appears. So it becomes an exercise in ‘picking the flyshit out of the pepper’. I personally prefer my pepper without flyshit. And against all odds, it’s working.
Miners Lettuce (Claytonia rubra ssp, rubra) Portulacaceae, occasional Hardly a forkful here, but it’s cousins in the western foothills grow quite a bit bigger, and were eaten by the natives and subsequent inhabitants.
Sticky Cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa) Rosecaseae, has pinnate leaves (as opposed to it’s lookalike non-native cousin Potentilla Norvegica which has ternate leaves, though both are somewhat variable)
Sticky Cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa) Rosecaseae
These leaves look more like non-native Potentilla Norvegica, than Drymocallis glandulosa, but I’ll will have to wait and see if it becomes pinnate as the leaf stems grow.
Blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia parviflora), Scropulariaceae
non-native Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Asteraceae. I didn’t used to bother even pulling these, figuring they were a lost cause, naturalized as they say, and in most places the case can be made. But after having seen such success with the other non-natives in the Park after a few years, I started going after these as well, and it is definitely working, on the margins, though requires extra diligence, due to their quite rapid blooming turnaround. Weeding in my mind is not so much about eradication as it is about pushing back, providing some check against spreading, knowing full well it will return when I stop, but hoping to pass the baton. It’s more about the process and mindset, than it is about accomplishing some absolute goal, same old mortality-type stuff.
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Asteraceae with branching styles highlighted
Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea), Ericaceae growing on a carpet of Mahala Mat (Ceanothus prostratus)
Choker cable, cinched on logs for skidding behind a cat. There was some selective logging here in the 1940’s which is probably when this dates from.