Mary and Graham

Hillside walk, 13 April 2013

The early spring flowers have well gone now, and we are in the warm part of spring. The later spring wildflowers are appearing, such as sticky monkeyflower, chamise, and white sage. A surprise this week, something I'd not seen before on these hillsides, is the common muilla. Also, a cliff aster has a big display of flowers on the higher part of the north hillside. Dodder is still small in coverage, but is beginning to bloom.

On the west hillside, the caterpillar phacelia is even better than last week. But the increased dryness has resulted in the goldenback fern shrivelling up, except for a few instances that themselves will shortly be gone. Along Lida Street is a wild cucumber in full bloom, — I thought all of this species had gone to fruit, and the vines withering, but not in this case.


Miniature lupine	Smooth cat's ear	Smooth cat's ear	California coffeeberry

California coffeeberry	Dodder	Malta star thistle	Spiny redberry

Leafy California buckwheat	Black sage	Chamise	Blue elderberry

Telegraphweed	Cliff aster	Cliff aster	White sage

White sage	White sage	Common horehound	Common eucrypta

California liverwort	Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry	Danny's skullcap	Chaparral currant

Birch leaf mountain mahogany	Miner's lettuce	Bush monkey flower	Chamise

Chamise	Italian thistle	Wild hyacinth	Bush monkey flower

Unidentified green leaves	Unidentified green leaves	Western nettle	Common horehound

Collar lupine	Rattlesnake weed	Wishbone bush	Caterpillar phacelia

Coffee fern	Goldenback fern	Common muilla	Common muilla

Holly leaf cherry	Narrow leaved bedstraw	Narrow leaved bedstraw	Ropevine clematis

Douglas's nightshade	Malta star thistle	Blue elderberry	Deerweed

Wild cucumber	Deerweed	Deerweed	Mulefat

Mulefat	Morning glory	Morning glory	Morning glory

Cobweb thistle	Caterpillar phacelia