Plants

Indian plums ripen in Brandis Oaks area recently released from Douglas-fir overstory, June 2005. Note piled logging debris and neighboring conifers in background.

This site is being constructed during the 2005-2006 school year by Dan Bregar's Crescent Valley High School field biology class. All materials are available for purposes of research and education without charge, but we ask that such uses properly cite this source. Reports filed by individual students or teams of named students should be cited accordingly.

Students have been encouraged to use the format for "citations of intellectual property" used by the USDA PLANTS database to reference Internet-based sources of text, tables, maps, videos, and photographs. Scientific names of each species are referenced directly to Hitchcock and Cronquist 1973.

The plants of the Brandis Oaks savannah restoration project can be generally divided into three categories: relict natives; planted natives; and weeds. For the most part, the weeds include all of the exotic vascular plants introduced into the area within the past 160 years, as well as a few unwanted native species, such as poisonoak and Douglas-fir.

The key plants considered in this project to this time are all vascular plants: trees, shrubs, vines, wildlfowers (forbs & bulbs), grasses, ferns and rushes. That is for the simple reason that most forest and "oak savannah" definitions and descriptions are based almost entirely on populations and arrangements of key vacular plants, including oak, grasses, bulbs, forbs, and shrubs. Non-vascular plants, including lichen, mosses, musrooms, molds, etc., may be studied in greater detail at some future time.

Relict native vascular plant populations, 2005.

Trees

Shrubs & Vines

Grasses

Ferns, Horsetails, Mosses, Sedges & Rushes

 

Native forbs and bulbs, seeded and planted Spring 2005.

 

Exotic and Native Problem Weeds

Riley's Tips

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