Annual knawel
Scleranthus annuus
Blow-wives (fruit)
Achyrachaena mollis
Carrotleaf horkelia
Horkelia daucifolia
Cow parsnip
Heracleum lanatum
Death camas
Zigadensus venenosus
Dotseed plantain
Plantago erecta
Drop-pod (fruit)
Athysanus pusillus
Eyelash weed
Blepharipappus scaber
Grand collomia
Collomia grandiflora
Hayfield tarweed
Hemizonia congesta
Henderson's triteleia
Triteleia hendersonii
Large-flowered woolly meadowfoam
Limnanthes pumila grandiflora
Largeleaf sandwort
Moehingria macrophylla
Martha Washington Lily
Lilium washingtonianum
Meadow nemophilia
Nemophilia pedunculata
Mock orange
Philadelphis lewisii
Mouse-tails
Myosurus minimus
Northwestern saxifrage
Micranthes intergrifolia
Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Paper onion
Allium amplectens
Poison-oak
Toxicodendron diversilobum
Q-tips
Micropus californica
Spur lupine
Lupinus arbustus
Stream wakerobin
Trillium albidum
Turkey mullein
Croton setigerus
Valley tassel paintbrush
Castilleja attenuata
Western trillium
Trillium ovatum
White brodiaea
Triteleia hyacinthina
White fairypoppy
Meconella oregana
Whitehead navarretia
Navarretia leucocephala
Wild cucumber
Marah oreganus
Wooly-head clover
Trifolium eriocephalum
Join us for a winter hike at the Harry & Marilyn Fisher Preserve at Pompadour Bluff just outside of Ashland on a hike guided by SOLC staff. Walk though beautiful oaks and grasslands to the top of the bluff for spectacular views of Bear Creek Valley, the Cascades and the Siskiyou Mountains. Free, but please register for more information and to reserve a spot. We will meet in Ashland to carpool or caravan.
Join lichenologist and naturalist John Villella for an exploration of the lichens at the Harry & Marilyn Fisher Preserve at Pompadour Bluff near Ashland. We will identify lichens growing on trees, shrubs, soil, and rocks, and we may see some rare species. Free, but please register for more information and to reserve a space. We will meet in Ashland to carpool or caravan. Please bring a hand lens if you have one.
Nature Talks on YouTube
Enjoy recordings of our past Nature Talks. Each event has multiple presenters. From our local national trails, to new SOLC conserved lands, to special species, to tracking animals in the snow - you’ll gain knowledge to impress all your friends.
If you would like to join this volunteer group eccentrically self-labeled as Cuckoos looking for Cuckoos, please contact Myco Schroeder, SOLC’s Education and Engagement Specialist, at myco@landconserve.org.
Sticky tofieldia or western false-asphodel, Triantha occidentalis
You are not in this for recognition or stardom, you just need to supplement your diet of eating sunlight and gathering nutrients because the soils on Eight Dollar Mountain are a bit like human junk food, low in plant nutrients and high in toxic metals. Everyone needs to eat, yet you are sessile and embedded in soggy wetland soils. For eons, you have been digesting bugs, but only in 2021, did human scientists discover your clever ways. Sticky flower stems do the trick, very sticky bug-trapping stems. Tiny hairs on your stem release phosphatase, an enzyme, allowing you to digest very small protein and phosphorus-rich snacks like fruit flies while avoiding eating your larger pollinator buddies who are stronger and can avoid getting stuck.
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