Devil's Lake Bog...

I have visited this Lake several times but never through the lens of a Bryologist. I have to say it is the mossyest and most diverse Liverwort population of any place I have been where I was actually interested. I came here to look at the bog because it too has more species of Sphagnum than any other Bog in Washington. According to
TABLE 4.2 Verified Sphagnum species, some Northwest localities*
Wetland Species present
BBC 45/King County, WA S. mendocinum
S. palustre
Devil's Lake Bog/Jefferson County, WA
S. angustifolium
S. palustre
S. capillifollium
S. fuscum
S. mendocinium
S. squarrosum
JC66 Shadow Lake Bog/King County, WA S. capillifolium
LCR 14/King County, WA S. pacificum
Little Lake/Snohomish County, WA S. warnstorfii
S. papillosum
Sleeper Bog/Whidbey Island, WA S. pacificum

• Verified by Dr. Dale Vitt, University of Southern Illinois, June 2000
  The weather was overcast and late, as you walk in to the Lake you pass through a hall of mosses. I saw a lot of Hylocomium splendens, Isothecium sp.,Plagiothecium undulatum, Polyrichum.. Tons and tons of species. We did not get a chance to go to the bog and check out the Sphagnum, maybe on my next visit.

Posted on February 21, 2012 07:12 PM by adog40