plant poking up through water surface of slough in Don Edwards Refuge on 2022 Oct 30
About 100 feet tall, surrounded at base by green/brown dry plants. Branches about 50 feet up with orangey-green leaves.
Under a medium-sized height tree. Has three green seeds with one seems to already gone away? It seems like it hasn’t been detached from its original tree for too long because the leaves are still green.
Interesting I found it on the root of the tree, not among dead leaves.
It is dry and alone, no similar seeds near it.
immature elderberries observed near the north-west end of Strawberry Creek, Berkeley. The shrub was located near the edge of one of the few deeper ends of the creek, overlooking a group of 2-3 Signal Crayfish. Distinct 'spread-out' shape and greenish-white colouration at this stage of growth.
Genus Caenothus
Located by MLK