However, because it is more fun to look at photos, here are some photos of a dandeliony-looking flower high in the northeast Olympics. Is it a T. olympicum? I do not know, but it could be and it probably looks very similar. I'll be checking on this.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
7. Olympic Mt. dandelion, Taraxacum olympicum
Apparently, even Ice Age lawns had problems with dandelions. I am having some difficulties locating good descriptions and photos of this one. The original specimens, collected by G. Neville Jones from Mt Angeles in 1936 for the his book "A Botanical Survey of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington", look like..... um...... 3 dandelions. Why are they different from the ones invading my lawn? I do not know. As with many scientific questions, more research is needed. See you in the book stacks.
However, because it is more fun to look at photos, here are some photos of a dandeliony-looking flower high in the northeast Olympics. Is it a T. olympicum? I do not know, but it could be and it probably looks very similar. I'll be checking on this.
Here is the habitat that I found them in. The individuals pictured above are in the lower middle of this photo. They are very small and tough to spot.
However, because it is more fun to look at photos, here are some photos of a dandeliony-looking flower high in the northeast Olympics. Is it a T. olympicum? I do not know, but it could be and it probably looks very similar. I'll be checking on this.
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The photos are of Agoseris glauca var. dasycephala. Taraxacum olympicum will be almost hairless (especially regarding the involucre), with some fuzz on the fleshy peduncle, and have conspicuously toothed leaves. As with so many lesser-known Olympic plants, it has only been collected from Mount Angeles. I would try looking there, and on Blue, Tyler/Baldy, both ridges going north from Buckhorn, and possibly around Charlia Lakes.
ReplyDeleteYou should also be on the lookout for disjunct populations of Lomatium dissectum, Corydalis aurea, and Ranunculus glaberrimus. Only the last has been reported recently. (I have almost no hope of re-finding disjunct Douglasia nivalis and Astragalus lentiginosus.)