Low-lying herb with proportionately long red stem extending on the ground, from which leaves bend upward from. Flowers are bright yellow and circular
Large woody shrub with leaves densely clustered on top. Fruit-bearing inflorescences poking out over shrub
Basal cluster with fanning out stems that support dense glaucous leaves and yellow inflorescence at the apex
Flowers have fuzzy texture; stems have silky smooth texture; all the vegetation radiates from a single point; flowers appear in clusters.
Has a beautiful smell, maybe like jasmine ?
Description/Habitat: Mounding shrub to tree, low prevalence. Lanceolate leave adaxially dark green and waxy, abaxially gold and glabrous, margins slightly rolled.
ID notes: Jepson Key, iNaturalist
Categorized as an herb. Leaves are green, ovate and opposite. Smells like lemons when rubbed. Hairs of the angles of the stems are stiff. Located in a region where it receives sunlight partially throughout the day. Flowers are not in bloom. As this is located in a gulch, water constantly trickles in.
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Collector: Brian J. Darken
Collector number: 1
Location: Santa Cruz County, California, USA
Municipality: Santa Cruz
Locality description: UCSC Jordan Gultch, East of ISB building.
Coordinates: 37°00'01.4" N 122°03'35.2"W
Elevation: 234m
Description: Green, waxy leaves. Not in bloom currently. Height at around 10 cm.
Habitat: Can grow in damp and covered areas.
Associated Species: Grown in areas with Polypodiaceae and Cupressaceae families.
Family: Boraginacae
Scientific name: Myosotis latifolia
Authority: Ronald B. Kelley & Elaine Joyal
Common Name: Broadleaf forget-me-not
Collection Date: 21 Jan 2020
Description: leaves and stem a very bright green color, earthy scent, blade texture feet fuzzy and coarse, latex-like texture, approx. 20 cm(including stem), 13 cm (without stem), due to season no flowers were apparent, shrub-Like, offspring of a cultivated specimen due to appearance being at its earlier life stage.
USA:California:Santa Cruz
Directions: UCSC Campus, Science HIll, Jordan Gulch to the east of the Natural Sciences Two around 50ft south down gulch from trailhead.
Elevation: 760ft
Description:Tan oak growing on edge of embankment in Jordan Gulch to the next to Natural Sciences 2 building going towards overhead bridge away from road. Fuzzy bottom of leaves, broad leaves with branching patterns of 3s.
Habitat: small tree growing on edge of embankment, leaning towards the light, soil was clay like with lots of organic material from redwoods on top. Surrounding plants were: Sequoia sempervirens, ferns and redwood sorrel. Other tan oakes were presents in the gulch, one further up the slope around a similar size. ID’d by Chris Lay of Norris Center as Nothlicarpus densiflorus.
Family: Fagacea
Authority: (Hook and Arn) Manos, C.H. Cannon, and S. OH
Common names: Tan oak, Tanbark oak