Natural Perspective

Species Index

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Common Names

Amethyst Laccaria

Order Agaricales

Asterella Liverwort

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Balsam-tree Moss

Genus Dendroalsia (Balsam-tree Moss)

Banana Slug

Mushroom Lovers , Animal Kingdom

Bat Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Black Fluted Elfin-saddle

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Black Morel

Farewell to Spring , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Blackwood Acacia

Cover , Acacias (Pea Family)

British Soldier Lichen

Fungus Kingdom , Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

California Bay Laurel

Inspiration

California Buttercup

Farewell to Spring

California Maidenhair

Plant Kingdom

California Mussel

Animal Kingdom

Candlesnuff Fungus

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Chanterelle

Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Checker Bloom

Farewell to Spring

Cinquefoil Geranium

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Coast Live Oak

Inspiration

Common Puffball

Fungus Kingdom

Common Yolk Lichens

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Culture Louse/Springtail

Mushroom Lovers

Death Cap

Amanita Family

Earth Fan

Order Aphyllophorales

Earthstar

Fungus Kingdom

Fairy Fingers

Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Feather Boa Kelp

Protoctist Kingdom

Flat-Top Agaricus

Agaricus Family

Fly Agaric

Amanita Family

Footsteps-of-Spring

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae) , Footsteps of Spring (Carrot Family)

Fungus Gnat

Mushroom Lovers

Giant Green Anemone

Animal Kingdom

Giant Sequoia

Godetia

Farewell to Spring

Goldback Fern

Ferns (Filicinophyta)

Golden Milk Cap

Order Agaricales

Gomphidius

Order Agaricales

Goose Barnacle

Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Green Crust Lichen

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Green Wattle

Acacias (Pea Family)

Hairy Honeysuckle

Natural Perspective , Cover

Hawk's Wing

Cover , Order Aphyllophorales

Hornwort

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Juniper Haircap

Genus Polytrichum (Haircaps)

King Bolete

Order Agaricales

Knobby Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Latticed Stinkhorn

Cover , Fungus Kingdom , Clathrus (Stinkhorn Family)

Leafy Liverwort

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Leather Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Letharia Lichen

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Lined Chiton

Animal Kingdom

Lung-like Lichen

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Lupine

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Manzanita Bolete

Mushroom Lovers

Meadow Mushroom

Fungus Kingdom , Order Agaricales , Agaricus Family

Miner's Lettuce

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae) , Purslane Family

Moss

Plant Kingdom , Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Narcissus

Plant Kingdom

Ochre Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Old Man's Beard

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta) , Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Pacific Madrone

Mushroom Lovers , Plant Kingdom , Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Pink Coral Mushroom

Order Aphyllophorales

Pink Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Prince Agaricus

Agaricus Family

Puffed Shield Lichen

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Purple Shore Crab

Animal Kingdom , Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Purple Urchin

Animal Kingdom

Red Coralline Alga

Protoctist Kingdom

Red Crust Lichen

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Red-pored Bolete

Inspiration

Redwood Sorrel

Oxalis Family ,

Sanderling

Animal Kingdom

Scarlet Waxy Cap

Order Agaricales

Shaggy Mane

Fungus Kingdom , Order Agaricales

Sheathed Waxy Cap

Mushroom Puzzler

Sheep Sorrel

Farewell to Spring

Six-rayed Star

Animal Kingdom , Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Soap-plant

Soap-plant (Lily Family)

Split-Gill

Order Aphyllophorales

Springtime Amanita

Natural Perspective , Cover , Order Agaricales , Amanita Family

Stalked Orange Peel Fungus

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Stink Bug

Cover , Animal Kingdom , Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Stinkhorn

Fungus Kingdom

Sulfur Shelf

Cover , Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Sunflower Star

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Thimbleberry

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Tidy Tips

Farewell to Spring

Tidytips

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Toothed Coral Fungus

Order Aphyllophorales

Train Wrecker

Order Agaricales

Western Hemlock

Plant Kingdom

Western Jack-O-Lantern

Order Agaricales

Western Red Columbine

Farewell to Spring

White Morel

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Witch's Butter

Fungus Kingdom

Wolf Moss

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Yellow Oxalis

Oxalis Family

Acacia decurrens

Acacias (Pea Family)

Acacia melanoxylon

Cover , Acacias (Pea Family)

Acarospora spp.

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Adiantum jordanii

Plant Kingdom

Agaricus augusts

Agaricus Family

Agaricus campestris

Fungus Kingdom , Order Agaricales , Agaricus Family

Agaricus praeclaresquamosus

Agaricus Family

Aleuria rhenana

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Amanita muscaria

Amanita Family

Amanita phalloides

Amanita Family

Amanita velosa

Natural Perspective , Cover , Order Agaricales , Amanita Family

Anthopleura xanthogrammica

Animal Kingdom

Aquilegia eleganta

Farewell to Spring

Arbutus menziesii

Mushroom Lovers , Plant Kingdom , Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Ariolimax columbianus

Mushroom Lovers , Animal Kingdom

Asterella californica

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Boletus edulis

Order Agaricales

Boletus erythropus

Inspiration

Calidris alba

Animal Kingdom

Calliarthron tuberculosum

Protoctist Kingdom

Caloplaca spp.

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Cantharellus cibarius

Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Soap-plant (Lily Family)

Cladonia macilenta

Fungus Kingdom , Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Clarkia rubicunda

Farewell to Spring

Clathrus ruber

Cover , Fungus Kingdom , Clathrus (Stinkhorn Family)

Clavaria vernicularis

Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Claytonia perfoliata

Purslane Family

Claytonia perfoliata var. perfoliata

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Coprinus comatus

Fungus Kingdom , Order Agaricales

Dendroalsia abietina

Genus Dendroalsia (Balsam-tree Moss)

Dermasterias imbricata

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Egregia menziesii

Protoctist Kingdom

Geastrum spp.

Fungus Kingdom

Geranium potentilloides

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Gomphidius oregonensis

Order Agaricales

Helvella lacunosa

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Hemigrapsus nudus

Animal Kingdom , Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Hericium coralloides

Order Aphyllophorales

Homolathecium nutalli

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Hydnum imbricatum

Cover , Order Aphyllophorales

Hygrocybe punicea

Order Agaricales

Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus

Mushroom Puzzler

Hypogymnia imshaugii

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis

Order Agaricales

Lactarius alnicola

Order Agaricales

Laetiporus sulfureus

Cover , Fungus Kingdom , Order Aphyllophorales

Layia platyglossa

Farewell to Spring , Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Lecanora spp.

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Leccinum manzanitae

Mushroom Lovers

Lentinus lepideus

Order Agaricales

Leptasterias hexactis

Animal Kingdom , Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Letharia columbiana

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Letharia vulpina

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans

Natural Perspective , Cover

Lupinus nanus

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Lycoperdon perlatum

Fungus Kingdom

Morchella deliciosa

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Morchella elata

Farewell to Spring , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Musci Class

Plant Kingdom

Mycetophila spp.

Mushroom Lovers

Mytilus californianus

Animal Kingdom

Narcissus spp.

Plant Kingdom

Omphalotus olivascens

Order Agaricales

Onychiurus folsomi

Mushroom Lovers

Oxalis incarnata

Oxalis Family

Oxalis oregana

Oxalis Family ,

Patiria miniata

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Pentagramma triangularis

Ferns (Filicinophyta)

Phaeoceros spp.

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Phallus impudicus

Fungus Kingdom

Pisaster brevenspinus

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Pisaster giganteus

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Pisaster ochraceous

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Pollicipes polymerus

Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Polytrichum juniperinum

Genus Polytrichum (Haircaps)

Pseudocyphellaria anthraspis

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Pycnopodia helianthoides

Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)

Quercus agrifolia

Inspiration

Ramaria formosa

Order Aphyllophorales

Ranunculus californica

Farewell to Spring

Rubus parviflorus

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae)

Rumex acetosella

Farewell to Spring

Sanicula arctopoides

Dicots (Class Dicotyledoneae) , Footsteps of Spring (Carrot Family)

Scapania spp.

Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) and Allies

Schizophyllum commune

Order Aphyllophorales

Sequoiadendron giganteum

Sidalcea calycosa

Farewell to Spring

Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Animal Kingdom

Thelephora terrestris

Order Aphyllophorales

Thyanta spp.

Cover , Animal Kingdom , Joint-Legs (Phylum Arthropoda)

Tonicella lineata

Animal Kingdom

Tremella mesenterica

Fungus Kingdom

Tsuga heterophylla

Plant Kingdom

Umbellularia californica

Inspiration

Usnea arizonica

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Usnea spp.

Lichens (Phylum: Mycophycophyta)

Xylaria hypoxylon

Fungus Kingdom , Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)