Hillside walk, 22 March 2014
The greening of the hillside continues. Popcorn flowers are staring to appear in significant numbers, like they should. I counted 204 flowers of strigose lotus (Acmispon stigosus), which compares with 78 last week. The first coffeeberry flowers (Frangula californica) are appearing.
Meanwhile the liverwort continues to fade away.
The big discovery of the day, on the dry, open hillside above the upper part of Lida Street, was one plant of death camas (Toxicoscordion sp.), which I've not seen previously on the hillside. It was nicely in bloom. Based on descriptions, I've not so far been able to identify it to the species level.
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Coast live oak |
Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry |
Western sycamore |
Dodder |
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California bluebells |
California bluebells |
California bluebells |
Rattlesnake weed |
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Rattlesnake weed |
Common beggar-tick |
Common sunflower |
Popcorn flower |
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Strigose lotus |
Strigose lotus |
Two color everlasting |
Popcorn flower |
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Scrub oak |
California coffeeberry |
Wishbone bush |
California bluebells |
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Black sage |
Coffee fern |
Meadow in Canyon 5 |
Skunkbrush |
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A moss |
California liverwort |
Scrub oak |
Common eucrypta |
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Popcorn flower |
Lemonade berry |
Wishbone bush |
California liverwort |
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Goldenback fern |
California liverwort |
California liverwort |
California liverwort |
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Fremont's star lily |
Fremont's star lily |
Fremont's star lily |
Narrow leaved bedstraw |
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Narrow leaved bedstraw |
Douglas's nightshade |
Poison oak |
Poison oak |
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Blue elderberry |
Wild cucumber |
Deerweed |
Leafy California buckwheat |
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Bush monkey flower |
Bush monkey flower |
Mulefat |
Mulefat |
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Common eucrypta |
Black sage |
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