Time to mow the brome!

With germination rates rising it was time  to cut back some of the most abundant and already collected species to make room for the new! Red Brome had some trays completely filled and needed serious mowing. Fiddleneck, Filaree and Encelia were among the other species to be removed because they were simply getting too large. Once the forests were cleared Steve and I could see new seedlings yet to be identified and also two cacti seedlings that had popped up!

 Proof for the doubters that Cacti have leaves!

The first mushrooms to emerge, anyone have a guess to their ID? 

 A new curly grass emerging in a few of the sites trays.

Mexican Poppy in the Marcus landslide trays.


Coming soon, Steve's identification part 2!